spade

See also: Spade and späde

English

WOTD – 7 January 2016

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /speɪd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: spayed
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite [script needed] (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار‎ (sopār, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار‎ (aspār, “diging”) and Kurdish ئەسپەر‎ (aspar, “blade's sign on earth”)[1]

Noun

spade (plural spades)

  1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'
  2. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
    I've got only one spade in my hand.
  3. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
  4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Translations
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Verb

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

  1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Etymology 2

Compare spay, noun.

Alternative forms

Noun

spade (plural spades)

  1. A hart or stag three years old.
  2. A castrated man or animal.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.

Alternative forms

Noun

spade m (plural spaden or spades)

  1. spade

Finnish

Noun

spade

  1. (military slang) field cook

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).

Noun

spade f (plural spadis)

  1. sword

Italian

Noun

spade f

  1. plural of spada

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spader, definite plural spadene)

  1. a spade (tool)
    kalle en spade for en spade - call a spade a spade
  2. a spadeful
    tre spader jord - three spadefuls of earth

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði, from Middle Low German spade

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²spɑːə/, /²spɑːdə/

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spadar, definite plural spadane)

  1. a spade, shovel (tool)
    kalle ein spade for ein spade - call a spade a spade
  2. a spadeful
    ein spade sand - a spadeful of sand

Verb

spade (present tense spader, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spad)

  1. Alternative form of spa

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, from Middle Low German spade, from Proto-Germanic *spadō, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.

Noun

spade c

  1. a spade (tool)

Declension

Declension of spade 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative spade spaden spadar spadarna
Genitive spades spadens spadars spadarnas
  • spada
  • spader
  • spadformad
  • spadhandtag
  • spadharv
  • spadtag
  • spadvända
  • spadvändning

References

  1. ↑ Dehkhoda dictionary, enter: سپار
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