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English
Etymology
From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake.
Pronunciation
Noun
stake (plural stakes)
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 106:However, the word "witch" came to be applied almost exclusively to women who [...] were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake.
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
2021 February 10, Richard Clinnick, “Eurostar boost as French promise aid”, in RAIL, number 924, page 10:The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
1910, Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge:Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.
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pointed long and slender piece of wood etc.
- Albanian: hu (sq)
- Arabic: وَتِد (ar) m (watid), خَازُوق m (ḵāzūq)
- Hijazi Arabic: خازوق m (ḵāzūg), عَامُود m (ʕāmūd)
- Basque: taketa
- Belarusian: кол m (kol)
- Bulgarian: кол (bg) m (kol)
- Catalan: pal (ca) m, estaca (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 木樁/木桩 (zh) (mùzhuāng)
- Czech: kůl (cs) m, tyčka (cs) f, kolík (cs) m
- Dutch: staak (nl) m, paal (nl) m
- Esperanto: paliso, paliseto
- Finnish: paalu (fi), tolppa (fi)
- French: pieu (fr) m, pal (fr) m, tuteur (fr) m, jalon (fr) m, piquet (fr) m
- Galician: estaca (gl) f
- Gallurese: stantagliu
- German: Pfahl (de) m, Pflock (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌽𐌿𐌸𐍉 f (hnuþō)
- Greek: πάσσαλος (el) n (pássalos), παλούκι (el) m (paloúki)
- Ancient: σκόλοψ m (skólops), χάραξ (khárax), σταυρός (staurós)
- Hebrew: יָתֵד (he) m (yātḗḏ)
- Hungarian: karó (hu)
- Ido: paliso (io)
- Irish: cuaille m
- Italian: palo (it) m, paletto (it) m, picchetto (it) m, piolo (it) m, stecca (it) f, tutore (it) m
- Japanese: 棒 (ja) (ぼう, bō), 杭 (ja) (くい, kui)
- Kazakh: қазық (qazyq)
- Korean: 말뚝 (ko) (malttuk)
- Latin: tālea f, pālus m, stilus m, sudis f, ridica f
- Latvian: miets (lv) m
- Luxembourgish: Poul m
- Macedonian: кол m (kol), колец m (kolec)
- Malay: galah
- Maori: tia, titi, teo, rirīwai (for fishing nets)
- Middle English: stake
- Norwegian: stake (no) m, påle m
- Polish: pal (pl) m, kół (pl) m
- Portuguese: estaca (pt) f
- Romanian: par (ro) m
- Russian: кол (ru) m (kol), столб (ru) m (stolb), подпо́рка (ru) f (podpórka), ко́лышек (ru) m (kólyšek) (small, tent stake)
- Sardinian:
- Logudorese: albaranu, longupànte
- Scottish Gaelic: stob m
- Serbo-Croatian: колац m, kolac (sh) m
- Slovak: kôl m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: koł m
- Spanish: estaca (es) f
- Swedish: stör (sv), påle (sv)
- Turkish:
- Modern Turkish: kazık (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قازیق (kazık)
- Ukrainian: кіл (uk) m (kil)
- Vietnamese: cọc (vi)
- Zazaki: qazıq m
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upright stick to prevent goods falling off a cart
timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned
share or interest in a business
Mormonism: territorial division
Verb
stake (third-person singular simple present stakes, present participle staking, simple past and past participle staked)
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
to stake vines or plants
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner:You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.
2014, A. J. Gallant, Dracula: Hearts of Stone:“You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- Synonyms: bet, hazard, wager
1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. ”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, page 725:I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
2019, Elad Elrom, “Blockchain Basics”, in The Blockchain Developer , Apress, →ISBN, page 23:Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […] , or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.
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Translations
to fasten, support, or defend with stakes
to pierce or wound with a stake
to put at hazard upon the issue of competition
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Dutch
Verb
stake
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of steken
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of staken
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English staca, from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô.
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Noun
stake (plural stakes)
- A stake; wood put in the ground as a marker or support.
- A fencepost; a stake used in concert to form a barrier.
- A branch or bough; an extension of a tree.
- A stave or stick; a cut (and often shaped) piece of wood.
- (rare) A prickle or splint.
- (rare) A metal bar or pole.
- (rare) A stabbing feeling.
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Etymology 2
Verb
stake
- Alternative form of staken
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish staki, from Old Norse staki, from Proto-Germanic *stakô, from Proto-Indo-European *steg-.
Noun
stake c
- (short for ljusstake) candlestick
- (colloquial, vulgar) a hard-on (penile erection)
- Synonyms: (colloquial) ståfräs, (colloquial) fjong, (colloquial) bånge, stånd
- (slang, uncountable) balls; courage, assertiveness
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