rade

English

Noun

rade (plural rades)

1. Obsolete spelling of road
2. (Scotland) raid
3. (Scotland) ride; procession
   • 2009 November, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Fairies‎, page 54:

     FAIRY RADES: Another favored fairy activity is the rade, or ride, a procession of fairies on horseback. The fairy rade takes fairies into the land of the mortals. The most important rades occur on Midsummer Nght's Eve, the Summer Solstice, which occurs June 21 or 22.

Verb

rade

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of ride

References

• “rade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• 'eard, DARE, Dare, Dear, Read, Reda, ared, dare, dear, read

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈde/,
• Hyphenation: ra‧de

Verb

radé

1. (intransitive) fall
2. (intransitive) descend
3. (intransitive) precipitate

Conjugation

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “rade”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Albanian

Etymology

Unclear, somehow from Proto-Iranian *racanáH (“rope”). Compare Persian رسن.

Noun

rade f (plural rade, definite radeja, definite plural radejat)

1. rope

Synonyms

• litar

Danish

Noun

rade c

1. indefinite plural of rad

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

rade

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of raden

Anagrams

• ader

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁad/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French rade (15th c.), from an Old French *rade, borrowed from Middle English rade, an early form of rode (“harbour”). Doublet of raid. See English road for more.

Noun

rade f (plural rades)

1. harbour
   • 1976, “Je vais t'aimer”, performed by Michel Sardou:

     À faire rougir les putains de la rade […] je vais t’aimer.

     To the point of making the harbour whores blush I'm going to love you.

Descendants

• → Catalan: rada
• → Italian: rada
• → Spanish: rada

Etymology 2

Back-formation from radeau.

Noun

rade m (plural rades)

1. (slang) bar, counter (of cafe, bar etc.)

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Possibly identical to etymology 1 or 2 above.

Noun

rade m (plural rades)

1. (slang, archaic) pavement (UK), sidewalk (US)

Derived terms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rade m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of rhade

Further reading

• “rade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.de/
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: rà‧de

Verb

rade

1. third-person singular present indicative of radere

Adjective

rade

1. feminine plural of rado

Anagrams

• arde, dare, reda

Latin

Verb

rāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rādō

References

• rade in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rade

1. inflection of rad (“quick”):
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural
2. Alternative form of rad (“quick”)

Adverb

rade

1. Alternative form of rad (“quickly”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

rade

1. Alternative form of rad (“scared”)

Etymology 3

Noun

rade

1. Alternative form of rode (“ride”)

Middle French

Etymology

Probably from an Old French *rade, borrowed from early Middle English rade (later rode), from Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, form Proto-Germanic *raidō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.də/

Noun

rade f (plural rades)

1. harbour

Descendants

• French: rade
  • → Catalan: rada
  • → Italian: rada
  • → Spanish: rada

Norman

Etymology

Uncertain.

Noun

rade f (plural rades)

1. (Jersey, nautical) roadstead

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.dɛ/
• Rhymes: -adɛ
• Syllabification: ra‧de

Adjective

rade

1. inflection of rad:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative plural

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rādere, present active infinitive of rādō, from Proto-Italic *razdō, from Proto-Indo-European *rh₁d-dʰ-, extended from *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

a rade (third-person singular present rade, past participle ras) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive, reflexive) to shave

   Synonym: bărbieri

   O să mă rad înainte de a pleca.

   I'm going to shave before leaving.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• răsură

See also

• râde
• raz
• răzui

Scots

Verb

rade

1. past of ride

   Then he rade awa.

   Then he rode away.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rade (Cyrillic spelling раде)

1. third-person plural present of raditi

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rode, from Old English *rodd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾɔːd/

Noun

rade

1. rod

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63