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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spoet, from Old Dutch *spuot, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi.
The "emergency department" sense is a clipping of spoedafdeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sput/
- Hyphenation: spoed
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
spoed m (uncountable)
- speed
- Synonym: snelheid
- hurry, haste
- Synonym: haast
- (chiefly Belgium) emergency department of a hospital
- thread pitch
Derived terms
Descendants
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch spoed.
Pronunciation
Noun
spoed
- (medicine) emergency, in sense of hurry
- Synonym: cito