schede

English

Etymology

From Latin scheda.

Noun

schede (plural schedes)

1. (obsolete) A written paper.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 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

• chesed

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):

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• Audio (Netherlands):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sche‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

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

1. sheath, scabbard
2. (formal) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• bladschede

Descendants

• Negerhollands: skeed

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

schede f

1. plural of scheda

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

schede

1. alternative form of sched

Etymology 2

Verb

schede

1. alternative form of scheden