Wade
See also: wade
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Waide
Etymology
editFrom Old English wæd (“a ford”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editWade
- A topographic surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
- In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.
- A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
- A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
- A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
- Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.
Usage notes
editTechnically, Wade should only refer to the system of Chinese romanization developed by Thomas Wade prior to the contributions and adjustments made by Herbert Giles. In practice, it was often used as a shorthand for the more proper term Wade-Giles.
Synonyms
edit- (romanization system): Wade-Giles
Derived terms
editAnagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German wade, from Old High German wado, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve; muscle; calf of the leg”), from Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editWade f (genitive Wade, plural Waden)
- calf (of the leg)
Declension
editDeclension of Wade [feminine]
Further reading
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