sted

Alternative formsEdit

• stead, stedd

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English sted, from Old English place, spot, locality

NounEdit

sted (plural steds)

1. (largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stead.
   • 1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome

     They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser:

     And false Duessa in her sted had borne

   • 1927, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Myths of Greece and Rome^[1], Library of Alexandria, ISBN 9781465523464:

     But in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, / Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon sted

AdverbEdit

sted (not comparable)

1. short for instead of

   • 2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, Long Island Press, accessed on 2012-07-25:

     (This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)

   • 2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, Huffington Post, accessed on 2012-07-25:

     Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

ReferencesEdit

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1269, sted, steddy

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse staðr (“place”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /stɛd/, [sd̥ɛð]

NounEdit

sted n (singular definite stedet, plural indefinite steder)

1. place
2. spot
3. passage, text
4. homestead

InflectionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See stede (“admit into the presence (of an authority)”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /stɛːd/, [sd̥ɛːˀð], [sd̥ɛðˀ]

VerbEdit

sted

1. Imperative of stede.

EtymologyEdit

From Old English stede (“a place, spot, locality”)

Alternative formsEdit

• stedd, stede

NounEdit

sted (plural steds)

1. a place, spot, locality

   Paradis is a priue stedd, þar mani mirthes er e-medd. — Cursor Mundi, c1400

   The kyng in þat Roche had non sted / Where that he Myhte hyden In his hed. — The History of the Holy Grail, c1450

2. a position or place occupied by someone

   helpeth vp þat adoun was y-broȝthe; to hys kynd sted — English Conquest of Ireland, 1525

3. a house, property

   All men o rome sal cum ... Tak vr folk and sted wit-all ... — Cursor Mundi, c1400

   ... broght hym fro hys strenkyþfull stedd To grete Rome agayne. — Le Bone Florence of Rome, 1500

4. a state, condition

   more sche hath decerved to be ded / thanne evere dyde my modyr jn ony sted. — Merlin, 1450

   It..shul stand me in gret ste [read: sted] her if it mygth be do closly and suerly. — Paston Letters, 1465

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Derived termsEdit

• stedfast — firm in purpose, unwavering, resolute
• stedfasten — to make resolute, steady; to establish a date, appoint, set
• stedfastship — firmness of purpose, resolve
• stedful — firmly put
• stedfulen — to make rich, prosperous
• stedfastnes, stedfastnesse — immutableness, permanence, support, reinforcement
• stedship — security

ReferencesEdit

• Middle English Dictionary

NounEdit

sted n (definite singular stedet; indefinite plural steder; definite plural stedene)

1. place

Alternative formsEdit

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) stad
• (Vallader) stà

EtymologyEdit

From Latin aestās, aestātem.

NounEdit

sted m (plural steds)

1. (Puter) summer