Wade

See also: wade

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Waide

Etymology

From Old English wæd (“a ford”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /weɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Proper noun

Wade

1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

     In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.

3. A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
   2. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
   3. A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
   4. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
   5. Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.

Usage notes

Technically, Wade should only refer to the system of Chinese romanization developed by Thomas Wade prior to the contributions and adjustments made by Herbert Giles. In practice, it was often used as a shorthand for the more proper term Wade-Giles.

Synonyms

• (romanization system): Wade-Giles

Derived terms

• St Nicholas at Wade
• Wade Hampton
• Wadesboro

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wade, from Old High German wado, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve; muscle; calf of the leg”), from Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

Wade f (genitive Wade, plural Waden)

1. calf (of the leg)

Declension

Declension of Wade [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Wade	die	Waden
genitive	einer	der	Wade	der	Waden
dative	einer	der	Wade	den	Waden
accusative	eine	die	Wade	die	Waden

Further reading

• “Wade” in Duden online
• “Wade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache