cade

See also: Cade, cadé, cadê, -cade, and cad é

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.

Adjective

cade (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

Verb

1. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

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Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. western prickly juniper, , whose wood yields a tar.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).

Noun

cade (plural cades)

1. (archaic) A cask or barrel.

   A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

Usage notes

• Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.

Anagrams

• CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad

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Interlingua

Verb

cade

1. present of cader
2. imperative of cader

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Italian

Verb

cade

1. third-person singular present of cadere

Anagrams

• ceda
• deca

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cade

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cadō

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cade

1. vocative singular of cadus