sade

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English saden (“to weary, become weary or satisfied”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Doublet of sate, a later variant; also cognate with English sad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɪd/

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Verb

sade (third-person singular simple present sades, present participle sading, simple past and past participle saded)

1. (dialect) To tire, weary.

Etymology 2

Noun

sade (plural sades)

1. Alternative spelling of sadhe

Anagrams

• 'eads, AEDs, Ades, Desa, ESAD, Eads, Seda, ades, deas

Czech

Pronunciation

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Noun

sade

1. vocative singular of sad

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sadëk. Equivalent to sataa (“to rain, precipitate”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑdeˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑde
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧de

Noun

sade

1. (meteorology) precipitation (any kind of precipitation from the sky (e.g. rain, snow, sleet, hailstones))

   Sateet tulivat tänä vuonna myöhään.

   The rains came late that year.

   1. (especially) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)
2. (by extension) rain (any matter moving or falling, usually through air)

   Kranaattisade putosi asemiimme.

   A rain of mortar fire fell on our positions.

Usage notes

sade on its own usually refers to rain. Snowfall, hailstorm etc. are also sade in Finnish, but are normally used with a modifier, e.g. lumisade (“snowing, snowfall”), raesade (“hailstorm”). It is also possible to use a modifier for rain specifically: vesisade.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• sataa
• sato

See also

• kuuro

Further reading

• “sade”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Middle English

Verb

sade

1. Alternative form of saden

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sapidus (“delicious, wise”). Doublet of sage (“wise”), which reflects a semantically specialized Vulgar Latin *sapius (“wise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsadə/

Adjective

sade m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sade)

1. delicious

Descendants

• Bourguignon: sade, sède, séde
• Franc-Comtois: saite, cède
• French: sade (obsolete)
• Lorrain: sâde
• Norman: sade

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sapĭdus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 201

Slovak

Pronunciation

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Noun

sade m

1. locative singular of sad

Swedish

Alternative forms

• sa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑː/
• IPA^(key): (rare) /¹sɑːdɛ/,

Verb

sade (contracted sa)

1. past indicative of säga

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ساده (sade), from Classical Persian ساده (sāda).

Adjective

sade

1. plain

Synonyms

• yalın