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English

Pronunciation

Noun

rade (plural rades)

  1. Obsolete spelling of road.
  2. (Scotland) raid
  3. (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

  1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of ride

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈde/ [ɾʌˈdɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ra‧de
  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

radé(intransitive)

  1. to fall (to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity)
  2. to descend (clarification of this definition is needed.)
  3. to precipitate (clarification of this definition is needed.)

Conjugation

More information Conjugation of (type II verb), 1st singular ...

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)

  1. rope

Synonyms

Danish

Noun

rade c

  1. indefinite plural of rad

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

rade

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of raden

Noun

rade

  1. (archaic) dative singular of raad

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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)

  1. 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
  • Catalan: rada
  • Italian: rada
  • Spanish: rada

Etymology 2

Back-formation from radeau.

Noun

rade m (plural rades)

  1. (slang) bar, counter (of cafe, bar etc.)

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Possibly identical to etymology 1 or 2 above.

Noun

rade m (plural rades)

  1. (slang, archaic) pavement (UK), sidewalk (US)
Derived terms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rade m (uncountable)

  1. alternative spelling of rhade

Further reading

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.de/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: rà‧de

Verb

rade

  1. third-person singular present indicative of radere

Adjective

rade

  1. feminine plural of rado

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

rāde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rādō

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rade

  1. inflection of rad (quick):
    1. weak singular
    2. strong/weak plural
  2. alternative form of rad (quick)

Adverb

rade

  1. alternative form of rad (quickly)

Etymology 2

Adjective

rade

  1. alternative form of rad (scared)

Etymology 3

Noun

rade

  1. 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)

  1. harbour

Descendants

Middle High German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈradə/

Noun

rade n

  1. dative singular of rat

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈradə/

Noun

rade n

  1. genitive plural of rat

Norman

Etymology

Uncertain.

Noun

rade f (plural rades)

  1. (Jersey, nautical) roadstead

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

rāde

  1. inflection of rād:
    1. nominative plural
    2. accusative singular/plural
    3. genitive/dative singular

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.dɛ/
  • Rhymes: -adɛ
  • Syllabification: ra‧de

Adjective

rade

  1. inflection of rad:
    1. neuter nominative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative plural
  2. (obsolete) inflection of rad:
    1. neuter accusative singular
    2. nonvirile accusative plural

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rādere.

Pronunciation

Verb

a rade (third-person singular present rade, past participle ras, third-person subjunctive radă) 3rd conjugation

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive, figurative) to level, obliterate

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

Scots

Verb

rade

  1. past of ride
    Then he rade awa.
    Then he rode away.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rade (Cyrillic spelling раде)

  1. third-person plural present of raditi

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

rade

  1. locative singular of rad

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rode, from Old English *rodd.

Pronunciation

Noun

rade

  1. rod

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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