bede
English
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English bēde (“prayer, request, supplication, order, command, rosary, bead”), from Old English gebed (“prayer, petition, supplication, religious service, an ordinance”), from Proto-Germanic *bedą (“prayer, entreaty”). Cognate with Dutch gebed and bede, German Gebet.
Noun
- prayer, request, supplication
- 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
- Thus originated the alms-(or bede-) houses so frequently met with in the retired villages of England.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night:
- By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
- 2008, Time to Ditch St. George:
- […] because miracles had frequently been done at his burial-place, even at the bede-house where he was buried.
- 2011, Where Did Beaded Flowers Come From?:
- Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
- 1875 March, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15 Number 87:
- order, command
- rosary
Etymology 2
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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English bēden (“to pray, offer, proffer, request, demand, order, command, forbid; proclaim, declare; present, counsel, advise, exhort”), from Old English bēodan (“to command, decree, summon, banish, declare, inform, announce, proclaim; threaten, offer, proffer, give, grant, surrender”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian biada, Old Saxon biodan (Low German beden), Dutch bieden, Old High German biotan (German bieten), Old Norse bjóða (Swedish bjuda (“command, show”)), Gothic *𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (*biudan) (attested in compounds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek πευθεσθαι (peuthesthai, “ask for”), Sanskrit बोधयित (bodhayita, “wake”), Old Church Slavonic бъдѣти (bŭděti) (Russian будить (buditʹ, “wake”)), Lithuanian budeti (“awake”). See also bid.
Verb
bede (third-person singular simple present bedes, present participle beding, simple past bade, past participle bode or boden)
- pray, offer, proffer
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- Sir, a bargan bede I you.
- 1500, The Towneley Plays:
- request, demand, order, command, forbid
- proclaim, declare
- (Can we date this quote by Le Mort Arthur and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A turnement were best to bede.
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- present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
- 1450, Merlin:
- They of londone […] boden hem to ben lyht of herte.
- 1450, Merlin:
Derived terms
Etymology 3
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Noun
bede (plural bedes)
References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bede”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1911
- Middle English Dictionary
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːdə/, [ˈb̥eːðə] or (in case of: entreat, pray, request): IPA(key): /beː/, [ˈb̥eːˀ]
- Rhymes: -eːˀ
Etymology 1
Noun
bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)
- beet (the root plant Beta vulgaris)
Inflection
Etymology 2
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(deprecated template usage) From Old Norse biðja, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Cognate with Swedish be, bedja, Icelandic biðja, English bid, West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden, German bitten.
Alternative forms
Verb
bede (imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bad, perfect tense er/har bedt)
Etymology 3
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(deprecated template usage) From Old Norse beita (“to let graze, rest”). Compare English bait.
Verb
bede (imperative bed, infinitive at bede, present tense beder, past tense bedede, perfect tense har bedet)
Etymology 4
See bed (“bed, garden plot”).
Noun
bede n pl
Etymology 5
Ultimately from Middle Low German. Either the Danish noun derives from a now-archaic verb bede (“to castrate, geld, wether”), which derives from Middle Low German böten, or the noun derives from a Middle Low German noun bete.
Noun
bede c (singular definite beden, plural indefinite beder)
- a wether (a castrated ram)
Dutch
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Middle Dutch bede, from Old Dutch beda.
Pronunciation
Noun
bede f (plural beden or bedes, diminutive bedetje n)
Derived terms
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch beda, from Proto-Germanic *bedō.
Noun
bēde f
Inflection
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Descendants
- Dutch: bede
Etymology 2
Determiner
bêde
- (Flemish) Alternative form of beide
Inflection
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Further reading
- “bede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bede (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Old Norse biðja, compare with Danish bede
Verb
bede (imperative bed, present tense beder, passive bedes, simple past bad, past participle bedt, present participle bedende)
Synonyms
References
- “bede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
bede (present tense bed, past tense bad, past participle bede or bedd or bedt, present participle bedande, imperative bed)
Synonyms
References
- “bede” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bai-, whence also Old Norse báðir.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bēde
Descendants
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High-German Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary, Oxford, 1888, p. 143.
Old Irish
Verb
bede
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German beten. Related to English bead.
Verb
bede
- to pray
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