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English

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Etymology 1

From stream editor.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

sed

  1. (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

Verb

sed (third-person singular simple present seds, present participle sedding, simple past and past participle sedded)

  1. (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
    Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

Etymology 2

Noun

sed (plural seds)

  1. (fishing) A line fastening a fish-hook.
    Synonym: snood

Etymology 3

Verb

sed

  1. Eye dialect spelling of said.

See also

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from sedět, sedat, sednout.

Pronunciation

Noun

sed m inan

  1. sitting position

Declension

Further reading

  • sed in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • sed in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • sed in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sed.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Conjunction

sed

  1. but

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto sed, from Latin sed.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

sed

  1. (archaic) but

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

From se, by analogy with eed and cheched.

Conjunction

sed

  1. (literary, rare, archaic) Alternative form of se for euphony before a vowel, especially /e/ or /ɛ/; if

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swét / *swéd, ablative case of *swé (whence se, suus); and originally the same as the inseparable preposition sē- (properly, “by itself”, “apart”, hence, “but”, “only”, etc.). Compare with the semantics of English "only (that)..." (= "but...").

Pronunciation

Conjunction

sed

  1. but

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sed in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
    • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus
    • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    • but that takes us too far: sed lābor longius
    • but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    • but enough: sed manum de tabula!

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

sed

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of sad

Etymology 2

Noun

sed

  1. Alternative form of seed (seed)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *catám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Persian صد (sad), Pashto سل (səl), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Sanskrit शत (śatá), Hindi सौ (sau).

Pronunciation

Numeral

sed

  1. hundred, 100, C

Derived terms

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

sēd n

  1. Alternative form of sǣd

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *śědъ.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sȇd (definite sȇdī, comparative sediji, Cyrillic spelling се̑д)

  1. grey (usually of hair)
  2. grey-haired

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsed/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ed
  • Syllabification: sed

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sitis (thirst), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (perishing, decrease). Cognate with Aragonese sete, Portuguese sede. Doublet of tisis.

Noun

sed f (plural sedes)

  1. thirst
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sed

  1. second-person plural imperative of ser

Further reading

Anagrams

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish siþer, from Old Norse siðr, from Proto-Germanic *siduz.

Pronunciation

Noun

sed c

  1. a (society-wide) custom, a traditional habit

Declension

Declension of sed 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sed seden seder sederna
Genitive seds sedens seders sedernas

Related terms

References

Anagrams

Zazaki

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to Persian صد (sad).

Pronunciation

Numeral

sed

  1. hundred