spade

• IPA^(key): /speɪd/

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• Homophone: spayed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ, *spadô, *spadō (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-, whence also Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”), Hittite [script needed] (išpatar, “spear”), Persian سپار‎ (sopār, “plow”), Northern Luri ئەسپار‎ (aspār, “diging”) and Kurdish ئەسپەر‎ (esper), ئەسپەرە‎ (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”)[1]

spade (plural spades)

1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'

2. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.

   I've got only one spade in my hand.

3. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

• in spades
• call a spade a spade

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Compare spay, noun, and spado.

• spaid
• spayade

spade (plural spades)

1. A hart or stag three years old.
2. A castrated man or animal.

• adeps, apsed, paeds, pedas

• IPA^(key): /ˈspaːdə/

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From Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.

spade m (plural spaden or spades)

1. spade

From Middle Dutch spâde, from Old Dutch *spādi. Cognate with German spät (“late”).

spade (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)

1. (archaic) late

• laat

spade

1. (military slang) field cook

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).

spade f (plural spadis)

1. sword

spade f

1. plural of spada

From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spader, definite plural spadene)

1. a spade (tool)

   kalle en spade for en spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   tre spader jord - three spadefuls of earth

• “spade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði, from Middle Low German spade

• IPA^(key): /²spɑːə/, /²spɑːdə/

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spadar, definite plural spadane)

1. a spade, shovel (tool)

   kalle ein spade for ein spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   ein spade sand - a spadeful of sand

spade (present tense spader, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spad)

1. Alternative form of spa

• “spade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse spaði, from Middle Low German spade, from Proto-Germanic *spadō, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.

spade c

1. a spade (tool)

• spada
• spader
• spadformad
• spadhandtag
• spadharv
• spadtag
• spadvända
• spadvändning

• spade in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)