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Etymology
- As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense.
- Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus.
- Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”).
- As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
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Cade
- An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, : ,Scene IV:
- Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
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