cade

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

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keɪd/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • 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

Noun

cade (plural cades)

  1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
    • 1720, John Bulkeley, The Last-Day: Poem in XII Books, page 54:
      Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand.

Verb

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

  1. To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
    • 1874, Pye Henry Chavasse, Counsel to a Mother on the Care and Rearing of her Children‎, 3rd edition, J.&A. Churchill, →OCLC, page 197:
      Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!
    • , Lindsay & Blakiston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
      Besides, the more luxury a child has, the more he will require—wants beget wants; until, at length, he will become a poor, wretched, artificial imbecile, fit only to be caded and cottoned up in warm enervating rooms; but totally unfit to be buffeted about—as is good for him—in this rough world of ours.]
    • 1926, Dorothy Rogers, “Miss Podbury's Adventure”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 63, →OCLC, page 222:
      "He's neither more nor less interesting than any other man, I suppose," replied Miss Podbury drily. "They're all alike, as far as I can see. I can't think what women find in them to make such a fuss about, cading them up and spoiling them in the way they do!"
    • , Heinemann, page 142:
      He's a spoiled boy – I believe he keeps a little bit ill so that we can cade him.]
    • 1965 [1941 winter], David Herbert Lawrence, “The Merry-Go-Round”, in Complete plays (Works), W. Heinemann, →OCLC, page 427, originally in Virginia Quarterly Review:
      mr hemstock: Tha'rt cading him a bit, Nurse.
      nurse: It is what will do him good—to be spoiled a while.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cade (plural cades)

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

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

1728, Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

  • “cade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cade, intruded around 1500 from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Noun

cade m (plural cades)

  1. western prickly juniper, cade (Juniperus oxycedrus)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French cade, from Latin cadus.

Noun

cade m (plural cades)

  1. (archaic) a cask or barrel
  2. (obsolete, revolutionary France) a cubic metre

Etymology 3

Clipped from Occitan pascada.

Noun

cade f (plural cades)

  1. a kind of pastry popular in Toulon

Further reading

Interlingua

Verb

cade

  1. present of cader
  2. imperative of cader

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.de/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: cà‧de

Verb

cade

  1. third-person singular present indicative of cadere

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cade

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō

Noun

cade

  1. vocative singular of cadus

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic جَادَّة (jādda).

Pronunciation

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

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