From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار (sopâr, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار (aspār, “digging”) and Central Kurdish ئەسپەر (esper), ئەسپەرە (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”). Distant doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.
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spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)
Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.
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Compare spay, noun, and spado.
spade (plural spades)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
From Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.
spade m (plural spaden or spades)
From Middle Dutch spâde, from Old Dutch *spādi, from Proto-Germanic *spēdiz (“late”).
spade (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)
Inflection of spade | ||||
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uninflected | spade | |||
inflected | spade | |||
comparative | spader | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | spade | spader | het spaadst het spaadste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | spade | spadere | spaadste |
n. sing. | spade | spader | spaadste | |
plural | spade | spadere | spaadste | |
definite | spade | spadere | spaadste | |
partitive | spades | spaders | — |
Possibly from pata (“pot”) (perhaps through English spade, since spades (the card suit) are also called pata in Finnish).
spade
Inflection of spade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | spade | spadet | ||
genitive | spaden | spadejen | ||
partitive | spadea | spadeja | ||
illative | spadeen | spadeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | spade | spadet | ||
accusative | nom. | spade | spadet | |
gen. | spaden | |||
genitive | spaden | spadejen spadeinrare | ||
partitive | spadea | spadeja | ||
inessive | spadessa | spadeissa | ||
elative | spadesta | spadeista | ||
illative | spadeen | spadeihin | ||
adessive | spadella | spadeilla | ||
ablative | spadelta | spadeilta | ||
allative | spadelle | spadeille | ||
essive | spadena | spadeina | ||
translative | spadeksi | spadeiksi | ||
abessive | spadetta | spadeitta | ||
instructive | — | spadein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).
spade f (plural spadis)
spade f
From Old English spadu.
spade (plural spades)
From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði.
spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spader, definite plural spadene)
From Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði, from Middle Low German spade.
spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spadar, definite plural spadane)
spade (present tense spader, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spad)
From Old Norse spaði, from Middle Low German spade, from Proto-Germanic *spadō, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
spade c
Declension of spade | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | spade | spaden | spadar | spadarna |
Genitive | spades | spadens | spadars | spadarnas |