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See also: Appendix:Variations of "rade"
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English
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
rade (plural rades)
- Obsolete spelling of road.
- (Scotland) raid
- (Scotland) ride; procession
- 2009 November, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Fairies, page 54:
- FAIRY RADES: Another favored fairy activity is the rade, or ride, a procession of fairies on horseback. The fairy rade takes fairies into the land of the mortals. The most important rades occur on Midsummer Nght's Eve, the Summer Solstice, which occurs June 21 or 22.
Verb
rade
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of ride
References
- “rade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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Afar
Pronunciation
Verb
radé(intransitive)
- to fall (to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity)
- to descend (clarification of this definition is needed.)
- to precipitate (clarification of this definition is needed.)
Conjugation
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “rade”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
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Albanian
Etymology
Unclear, somehow from Proto-Iranian *racanáH (“rope”). Compare Persian رسن (rasan).
Noun
rade f (plural rade, definite radeja, definite plural radejat)
Synonyms
Danish
Noun
rade c
- indefinite plural of rad
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
rade
Noun
rade
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁad/
Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)): (file)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French rade (15th c.), from an Old French *rade, borrowed from Middle English rade, an early form of rode (“a protected place near shore where ships could lie at anchor, harbour" also "a ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“a ride, riding”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride, riding”). Doublet of raid. See English road for more.
Noun
rade f (plural rades)
- harbour
- 1976, “Je vais t'aimer”, performed by Michel Sardou:
- À faire rougir les putains de la rade […] je vais t'aimer.
- To the point of making the harbour whores blush […] I'm going to love you.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Back-formation from radeau.
Noun
rade m (plural rades)
Etymology 3
Uncertain. Possibly identical to etymology 1 or 2 above.
Noun
rade m (plural rades)
Derived terms
- radasse
- radeuse
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
rade m (uncountable)
- alternative spelling of rhade
Further reading
- “rade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
rade
Adjective
rade
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
rāde
References
- "rade", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
rade
Adverb
rade
- alternative form of rad (“quickly”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
rade
- alternative form of rad (“scared”)
Etymology 3
Noun
rade
- alternative form of rode (“ride”)
Middle French
Etymology
Probably from an Old French *rade, borrowed from early Middle English rade (later rode), from Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.
Pronunciation
Noun
rade f (plural rades)
Descendants
Middle High German
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
rade n
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rade n
Norman
Etymology
Uncertain.
Noun
rade f (plural rades)
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
rāde
- inflection of rād:
Polish
Pronunciation
Adjective
rade
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
a rade (third-person singular present rade, past participle ras, third-person subjunctive radă) 3rd conjugation
- (transitive or reflexive) to shave (someone or something, respectively oneself)
- Troponym: bărbieri
- O să mă rad înainte de a pleca.
- I'm going to shave before leaving.
- (transitive, figurative) to level, obliterate
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Scots
Verb
rade
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
rade (Cyrillic spelling раде)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
rade
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English rode, from Old English *rodd.
Pronunciation
Noun
rade
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63
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