schede

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English

Etymology

From Latin scheda.

Noun

schede (plural schedes)

  1. (obsolete) A written paper.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York 2001, p.85:
      a deed to convey a whole manor was often implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that schede or scytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus

Anagrams

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schêde, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz.

Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsxeː.də/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sche‧de
  • Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

schede f (plural scheden or schedes, diminutive schedetje n)

  1. sheath, scabbard
  2. (formal) vagina
    Synonyms: vagina; see also Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: skeed

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɛ.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛde
  • Hyphenation: schè‧de

Noun

schede f

  1. plural of scheda

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

schede

  1. Alternative form of sched

Etymology 2

Verb

schede

  1. Alternative form of scheden