bede
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English gebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bed, from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
NounEdit
bede (plural bedes)
- Prayer, request, supplication
- 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
- Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], OCLC 939632161:
- By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
- 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:
- […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.
- 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:
- Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
- 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
- Rosary.
- 1566, Sir David Lindsay, A Dialogue betweene Experience and a Courtier:
- In Pilgrimage from towne to towne: With offring and with Drilon: To them they bable on their bedes: That they may helpe them in their nedes.
- 1642, William Prynne, A Pleasant Purge, for a Roman Catholike, to Evacuate His Evill Humours, page 20:
- Or doe they use their Bedes alone to finde That tale of Paters which they seldome minde?
- 1870, William Morris, The Earthly Paradise:
- Towards a rude hermitage he made To fetch the priest unto his need, To bury her and say her bede
- 1910, Hilaire Belloc, “The Little Serving Maid”, in Verses, page 39:
- Then the Little Serving Maid She went and laid her down, With her cross and her bede, In her new courting gown.
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English bēden (“to offer”), from Old English bēodan, from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda (“command, show”)), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (anabiudan). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι (peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयित (bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.
VerbEdit
bede (third-person singular simple present bedes, present participle beding, simple past bade, past participle bode or boden)
- pray, offer, proffer
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- Sir, a bargan bede I you.
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- request, demand, order, command, forbid
- proclaim, declare
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
- A turnement were best to bede.
- present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
- 1450, Merlin:
- They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.
- 1450, Merlin:
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Unknown?
NounEdit
bede (plural bedes)
ReferencesEdit
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 bede in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
- Middle English Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)
- beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)
InflectionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2Edit
Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verb bede (“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low German böten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German noun bete.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)
- wether (a castrated ram)
InflectionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3Edit
From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”). Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, English bid, Dutch bidden, and German bitten. The Germanic verb probably goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-, cf. Polish żądać (“to demand”) and Ancient Greek θέσσασθαι (théssasthai, “to pray”).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bede (past tense bad, past participle bedt)
- (transitive) to ask, request (to demand something from someone, with the person as an object and with the preposition om + the thing asked for)
- (transitive) to beg, entreat, implore (to plead to someone about something, with the person as an object and with the preposition om + the thing asked for)
- (intransitive) to pray (to address a divinity, with the preposition til + the addressed divinity)
InflectionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 4Edit
From Old Norse beita (“to let graze, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną, cognate with Norwegian beite (English bait is borrowed from Old Norse). A causative of the verb *bītaną (“to bite”) (cf. Danish bide).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bede (past tense bedede, past participle bedet)
InflectionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede,4” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 5Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bede n pl
- indefinite plural of bed
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch bede, from Old Dutch beda.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bede f (plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)
- plea
- (historical) a tax that was presented to lower-level governments as a petition for a lump sum; raising the tax was left to the lower-level governments
- (archaic) a prayer
Derived termsEdit
Middle DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Dutch beda, from Proto-Germanic *bedō.
NounEdit
bēde f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
- Dutch: bede
Etymology 2Edit
DeterminerEdit
bêde
- (Flemish) Alternative form of beide
InflectionEdit
This determiner needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- “bede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bede (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English ġebedu, plural of ġebed (“prayer”), from Proto-West Germanic *gabed; reinforced by Old English bedu (“request”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- prayer (the act of supplication)
- prayer (a supplication)
- A command or order.
- A bead from a rosary.
- (by extension) Any bead.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bēd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “ibēd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede.
VerbEdit
bede (imperative bed, present tense beder, passive bedes, simple past bad, past participle bedt, present participle bedende)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Pronunciation 1Edit
VerbEdit
bede (present tense bed, past tense bad, past participle bede or bedd or bedt, present participle bedande, imperative bed)
- Alternative form of beda
Pronunciation 2Edit
ParticipleEdit
bede
- past participle of beda
ReferencesEdit
- “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *bai, whence also Old Norse báðir.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bēde
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.
Old IrishEdit
VerbEdit
bede
Pennsylvania GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare German beten. Related to English bead.
VerbEdit
bede
- to pray
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
bede (Cyrillic spelling беде)