said

See also: sáið, Said, Saïd, Säid, and -said

English

Alternative forms

• saide, sayde, seyde (obsolete)
• sayed (nonstandard)
• sed (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕd, IPA^(key): /sɛd/

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• (dialectal, New Zealand) enPR: sād, IPA^(key): /seɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

said

1. simple past and past participle of say

Adjective

said (not comparable)

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

   The said party has denied the charges.

   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott:

     How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...

Translations

mentioned earlier

• Armenian: նշված (nšvac)
• Dutch: in kwestie, desbetreffend (nl)
• Finnish: samainen (fi), kyseessä oleva, edellä mainittu, kyseinen (fi)
• French: dit (fr) m
• Galician: dito (gl)
• Hungarian: (fent) említett, nevezett (hu), illető (hu)
• Persian: مذکور (fa) (mazkur)
• Portuguese: dito (pt) m
• Russian: упомя́нутый (ru) (upomjánutyj), ска́занный (ru) (skázannyj) (that was said)
• Spanish: dicho (es)
• Swedish: i fråga (sv), sagd (sv)

Determiner

said

1. Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

   Said party has denied the charges.

Translations

mentioned earlier

• Armenian: նշված (nšvac)
• Dutch: in kwestie, desbetreffend (nl)
• Finnish: samainen (fi), kyseessä oleva, edellä mainittu
• French: ledit (fr)
• Indonesian: tersebut (id)
• Japanese: 前記 (ja) (zenki), 該 (ja) (gai)
• Korean: 상기 (ko) (sanggi)
• Russian: вышеупомя́нутый (ru) (vyšeupomjánutyj), вышеука́занный (ru) (vyšeukázannyj)
• Spanish: dicho (es)

Anagrams

• AIDS, AISD, Aids, Dais, IADS, IADs, aids, dais, daïs, sadi, sida

Estonian

Verb

said

1. inflection of saama:
   1. second-person singular past indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Middle English

Verb

said

1. Alternative form of seide
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 39, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 78, lines 32–35:

     god thanke your hyhenes ſaid Balen / your bounte and hyhenes may no man preyſe half to the valewe / but at this tyme I muſt nedes departe / byſechyng yow alwey of your good grace /

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• seit (Sursilvan)
• set (Sutsilvan)
• seid (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

said f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) thirst

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈʔid/ [sɐˈʔid̪̚]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: sa‧id

Adjective

saíd (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜁᜇ᜔)

1. consumed; with everything used up; exhausted

   Synonym: ubos

Derived terms

• kasairan
• magsaid
• masaid
• masairan
• pagsaid
• sairin
• sumaid

 

Noun

saíd (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜁᜇ᜔)

1. consumption of everything on hand

   Synonyms: ubos, pag-ubos, pagkaubos

2. state of having nothing left

Anagrams

• isda, Isda, dais