schede
English
Noun
schede (plural schedes)
- (obsolete) A written paper.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York 2001, p.85:
- a deed […] to convey a whole manor was often implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that schede or scytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus […]
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
- scheede (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch schêde, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz.
Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsxeː.də/
audio (Belgium) (file) audio (Netherlands) (file) - Hyphenation: sche‧de
- Rhymes: -eːdə
Noun
schede f (plural scheden or schedes, diminutive schedetje n)
- sheath, scabbard
- (formal) vagina
- Synonyms: vagina; see also Thesaurus:vagina
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: skeed
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɛ.de/
- Rhymes: -ɛde
- Hyphenation: schè‧de
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