cade

See also: Cade, cadé, cadê, -cade, cad é, and čadě

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Adjective

cade (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

Verb

cade (third-person singular simple present cades, present participle cading, simple past and past participle caded)

1. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. western prickly juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.

Translations

Juniperus oxycedrus

• Greek:

  Ancient: ὀξύκεδρος f (oxúkedros)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel.

   A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

Usage notes

• Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

References

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad

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Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

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Italian

Verb

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

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Latin

Verb

cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō

Noun

cade

1. vocative singular of cadus

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Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic جادة‎ (jāda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːˈdɛ/

Noun

cade f (Arabic spelling جادە‎)

1. road, street

Declension

Declension of cade

Definite feminine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cade	cade
Construct	cada	cadên
Oblique	cadê	cadan
Demonstrative oblique	wê cadê	wan cadan
Vocative	cadê	cadino
Indefinite feminine gender
Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cadek	cadin
Construct	cadeke	cadine
Oblique	cadekê	cadinan

Derived terms

• cadeyî