fade

See also: fadé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪd/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.

   Synonym: dull

   • (Can we date this quote by Jeffery and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • (Can we date this quote by De Quincey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

Translations

tasteless

• Bulgarian: блудкав (bg) (bludkav)
• Dutch: saai (nl), smaakloos (nl)
• Esperanto: sensuka
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• French: fade (fr)
• Greek: άγευστος (el) (ágefstos), ανούσιος (el) m (anoúsios)
• Spanish: insípido (es)

Noun

fade (plural fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
3. (slang) A fight.
4. (music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
5. (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Ace could have done a fade. Instead, he gathered all his courage — which was not inconsiderable, even in his middle age — and went to see the Flying Corson Brothers.

Translations

golf shot that curves to the right

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cinematographic effect

• Greek: ξεθώριασμα (el) n (xethóriasma)
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• Italian: assolvenza f

Verb

1. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Isaiah 24:4

     The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     flowers that never fade

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The stars shall fade away.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI,

     A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

4. (transitive) To cause to fade.
5. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

Synonyms

• (grow weak, lose strength): weaken, wither
• (lose freshness, color, or brightness): blanch, bleach
• (sink away): decrease, diminish, wane

Translations

to grow weak, lose strength

• Armenian: թառամել (hy) (tʻaṙamel)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: вехна (bg) (vehna), увяхвам (bg) (uvjahvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 褪色 (zh) (tuìshǎi)

• Danish: falme
• Dutch: verzwakken (nl), verslappen (nl), verwelken (nl) (plants)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: heikentyä (fi), heiketä (fi)
• French: s’affadir (fr), faner (fr), flétrir (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: verwelken (de) (plant)
• Greek: σβήνω (el) (svíno)
• Hungarian: halványul (hu), elhalványul (hu)
• Italian: sbiadire
• Japanese: 薄れる (usureru)
• Khmer: ស្លោក (km) (slaok), រោយ (km) (rouy)
• Kyrgyz: ыраңын кетирүү (ky) (ıraŋın ketirüü), түсүн өчүрүү (ky) (tüsün öcürüü), боёосун кетирүү (ky) (boyoosun ketirüü), көркөмүн кетирүү (ky) (körkömün ketirüü)
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: defluo
• Maori: taero, māwhe, horotea (refers to colours), mātaotao (of feelings), tāromaroma (of strength, reputation, importance), pāitiiti (of sound)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svekkes (reflexive), forgå, falme

• Polish: więdnąć (pl)
• Portuguese: desfalecer (pt), estiolar
• Romanian: apune (ro)
• Russian: вя́нуть (ru) impf (vjánutʹ), увяда́ть (ru) impf (uvjadátʹ) (esp. of flowers);(of signal,process) затуха́ть (ru) impf (zatuxátʹ)
• Spanish: atenuar (es), disminuir (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཡལ (yal)
• Vietnamese: nhòa (vi)

to lose freshness, brightness

• Armenian: գունաթափվել (hy) (gunatʻapʻvel)
• Bulgarian: избелявам (bg) (izbeljavam), обезцветявам се (obezcvetjavam se)
• Dutch: verbleken (nl), verwelken (nl)
• Finnish: haalistua (fi), kauhtua, himmetä (fi), haaltua
• French: s’affadir (fr)
• German: verblassen (de)
• Greek: ξεθωριάζω (el) (xethoriázo), μαραίνομαι (el) (maraínomai)
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• Hungarian: halványul (hu), fakul (hu)
• Khmer: បំបាត់ពណ៌ (bɑmbat poa)
• Maori: māwhe, horotea
• Portuguese: desbotar (pt)
• Russian: выцветать (ru) impf (vycvetatʹ), обесцве́чиваться (ru) (obescvéčivatʹsja), блёкнуть (ru) impf or impf (bljóknutʹ), выгора́ть (ru) impf (vygorátʹ) (from the sun)
• Spanish: desteñir (es)

to vanish

• Bulgarian: заглъхвам (bg) (zaglǎhvam)
• Dutch: verzinken (nl), verdwijnen (nl), wegkwijnen (nl)
• Finnish: haihtua (fi), häipyä (fi), kaikota (fi), karkota, hämärtyä
• French: s’évanouir (fr)
• Greek: σβήνω (el) (svíno)
• Korean: 사라지다 (ko) (sarajida)
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• Maori: rerehu (from sight), tapore, tāporepore, tāromaroma, tāmatemate
• Polish: gasnąć (pl)
• Portuguese: desaparecer (pt)
• Russian: исчеза́ть (ru) impf (isčezátʹ), пропада́ть (ru) impf (propadátʹ)
• Spanish: desvanecerse (es)
• Vietnamese: nhòa (vi)

to cause to fade

• Finnish: haalistaa, himmentää (fi), kauhduttaa, heikentää (fi), häivyttää (fi), hämärtää, haihduttaa, karkottaa (fi)
• Greek: σβήνω (el) (svíno)
• Hungarian: halványít (hu), fakít (hu)
• Norman: dêteindre
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• Portuguese: desbotar (pt)
• Russian: обесцве́чивать (ru) impf (obescvéčivatʹ) (cause to lose colour)
• Spanish: deslucir (es)

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad.

Adjective

fade (comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

Anagrams

• Deaf, EDFA, deaf

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade

1. definite of fad
2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of fad

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Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader (“father”)

Noun

fade

1. (slang) father

Declension

Inflection of fade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		fade	fadet
genitive		faden	fadejen
partitive		fadea	fadeja
illative		fadeen	fadeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		fade	fadet
accusative	nom.	fade	fadet
	gen.	faden
genitive		faden	fadejen fadein rare
partitive		fadea	fadeja
inessive		fadessa	fadeissa
elative		fadesta	fadeista
illative		fadeen	fadeihin
adessive		fadella	fadeilla
ablative		fadelta	fadeilta
allative		fadelle	fadeille
essive		fadena	fadeina
translative		fadeksi	fadeiksi
abessive		fadetta	fadeitta
instructive		—	fadein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of fade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative fadeni fadeni accusative nom. fadeni fadeni gen. fadeni genitive fadeni fadejeni fadeini rare partitive fadeani fadejani inessive fadessani fadeissani elative fadestani fadeistani illative fadeeni fadeihini adessive fadellani fadeillani ablative fadeltani fadeiltani allative fadelleni fadeilleni essive fadenani fadeinani translative fadekseni fadeikseni abessive fadettani fadeittani instructive — — comitative — fadeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative fadesi fadesi accusative nom. fadesi fadesi gen. fadesi genitive fadesi fadejesi fadeisi rare partitive fadeasi fadejasi inessive fadessasi fadeissasi elative fadestasi fadeistasi illative fadeesi fadeihisi adessive fadellasi fadeillasi ablative fadeltasi fadeiltasi allative fadellesi fadeillesi essive fadenasi fadeinasi translative fadeksesi fadeiksesi abessive fadettasi fadeittasi instructive — — comitative — fadeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative fademme fademme accusative nom. fademme fademme gen. fademme genitive fademme fadejemme fadeimme rare partitive fadeamme fadejamme inessive fadessamme fadeissamme elative fadestamme fadeistamme illative fadeemme fadeihimme adessive fadellamme fadeillamme ablative fadeltamme fadeiltamme allative fadellemme fadeillemme essive fadenamme fadeinamme translative fadeksemme fadeiksemme abessive fadettamme fadeittamme instructive — — comitative — fadeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative fadenne fadenne accusative nom. fadenne fadenne gen. fadenne genitive fadenne fadejenne fadeinne rare partitive fadeanne fadejanne inessive fadessanne fadeissanne elative fadestanne fadeistanne illative fadeenne fadeihinne adessive fadellanne fadeillanne ablative fadeltanne fadeiltanne allative fadellenne fadeillenne essive fadenanne fadeinanne translative fadeksenne fadeiksenne abessive fadettanne fadeittanne instructive — — comitative — fadeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative fadensa fadensa accusative nom. fadensa fadensa gen. fadensa genitive fadensa fadejensa fadeinsa rare partitive fadeaan fadeansa fadejaan fadejansa inessive fadessaan fadessansa fadeissaan fadeissansa elative fadestaan fadestansa fadeistaan fadeistansa illative fadeensa fadeihinsa adessive fadellaan fadellansa fadeillaan fadeillansa ablative fadeltaan fadeltansa fadeiltaan fadeiltansa allative fadelleen fadellensa fadeilleen fadeillensa essive fadenaan fadenansa fadeinaan fadeinansa translative fadekseen fadeksensa fadeikseen fadeiksensa abessive fadettaan fadettansa fadeittaan fadeittansa instructive — — comitative — fadeineen fadeinensa

Synonyms

• isä (standard)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade (plural fades)

1. tasteless, insipid
2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

• (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant

Noun

fade m (plural fades)

1. (criminal slang) share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

1. inflection of fader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Alternative forms

• fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Etymology

From French fade, from Vulgar Latin fatidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːdə/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Pfade
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

1. bland
   • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag

     Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.

     An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."

Further reading

• “fade” in Duden online