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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the Anglo-Saxon sīðe meaning scythe.
The spelling with <sc-> was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- Obsolete form of scythe.
1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:[…] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.
1831, L E L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 7:Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...
Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
- Obsolete form of scythe.
Etymology 2
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- Alternative spelling of sith
Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
- (obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.
Etymology 3
Regional pronunciation of sigh.
Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
- (dialect, dated) To sigh.
- c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː
- I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- (obsolete) A sigh.
References
Etymology 4
Clipping of sithen.
Conjunction
sithe
- Alternative spelling of sith (“since”)
1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13:Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:
Anagrams
- shite, Thiès, shiet, Heits, Hites, sheit, Sethi, heist, seith, Thies, Heist
Middle English
Noun
sithe
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c. 1324, Bevis of Hampton, TEAMS Middle English Texts, lines 905–906:The king thar-of was glad and blithe / And thankede him ful mani a sithe,
c. 1450, “Thomas of India”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 85:The holy gost before vs glad / full softly on his sithe;