schede

English

Etymology

From Latin scheda.

Noun

schede (plural schedes)

  1. (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

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/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sche‧de
  • Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

schede f (plural scheden or schedes, diminutive schedetje n)

  1. sheath, scabbard
  2. (formal) vagina
    Synonyms: vagina; see also Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: skeed

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɛ.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛde
  • Hyphenation: schè‧de

Noun

schede f

  1. plural of scheda

Middle English

Noun

schede

  1. Alternative form of sched

Verb

schede

  1. Alternative form of scheden
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