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See also: Spade, späde, and спаде

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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 𒅖𒉺𒀀𒋻 (išpatar, spear), Persian سپار (sopâr, plow), Northern Luri ئەسپار (aspār, digging) and Central Kurdish ئەسپەر (esper), ئەسپەرە (espere, cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot).[1] Distant doublet of spatha, spathe, and épée.

Noun

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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[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
      '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.'
    • 2021 October 6, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Labour: build HS2 and NPR and end "paper promises"”, in RAIL, number 941, page 25:
      "[...] And not a single spade has gone in the ground - not a single mile of track built."
  2. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
  3. (furry fandom, vulgar) The vulva of canine species.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Scottish Gaelic: spaid
  • Fiji Hindi: sipi
Translations
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Verb

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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.
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ Dehkhoda dictionary: سپار.

Etymology 2

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Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (the ace of spades, literally sword, spade), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.[1]

Noun

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spade (plural spades)

  1. (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol .
    I've got only one spade in my hand.
  2. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
    • 1929, Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, New York: Collier Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 161:
      And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.
    • 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
      Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".
    • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 9:
      It had even gotten to the point that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.

Etymology 3

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Verb

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spade

  1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of spay
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Translations
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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
References
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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “spade (n.2)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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spade m (plural spaden or spades)

  1. spade

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch spâde, from Old Dutch *spādi, from Proto-Germanic *spēdiz (late).

Adjective

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spade (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)

  1. (archaic) late
Declension
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Declension of spade
uninflected spade
inflected spade
comparative spader
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial spade spader het spaadst
het spaadste
indefinite m./f. sing. spade spadere spaadste
n. sing. spade spader spaadste
plural spade spadere spaadste
definite spade spadere spaadste
partitive spades spaders
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Finnish

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Etymology

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Possibly from pata (pot) (perhaps through English spade, since spades (the card suit) are also called pata in Finnish).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspɑde/, [ˈs̠pɑ̝de̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑde
  • Hyphenation(key): spa‧de

Noun

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spade

  1. (military slang) field cook
    Synonym: sotilaskeittäjä

Declension

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Inflection of spade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative spade spadet
genitive spaden spadejen
partitive spadea spadeja
illative spadeen spadeihin
singular plural
nominative spade spadet
accusative nom. spade spadet
gen. spaden
genitive spaden spadejen
spadein rare
partitive spadea spadeja
inessive spadessa spadeissa
elative spadesta spadeista
illative spadeen spadeihin
adessive spadella spadeilla
ablative spadelta spadeilta
allative spadelle spadeille
essive spadena spadeina
translative spadeksi spadeiksi
abessive spadetta spadeitta
instructive spadein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of spade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative spadeni spadeni
accusative nom. spadeni spadeni
gen. spadeni
genitive spadeni spadejeni
spadeini rare
partitive spadeani spadejani
inessive spadessani spadeissani
elative spadestani spadeistani
illative spadeeni spadeihini
adessive spadellani spadeillani
ablative spadeltani spadeiltani
allative spadelleni spadeilleni
essive spadenani spadeinani
translative spadekseni spadeikseni
abessive spadettani spadeittani
instructive
comitative spadeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative spadesi spadesi
accusative nom. spadesi spadesi
gen. spadesi
genitive spadesi spadejesi
spadeisi rare
partitive spadeasi spadejasi
inessive spadessasi spadeissasi
elative spadestasi spadeistasi
illative spadeesi spadeihisi
adessive spadellasi spadeillasi
ablative spadeltasi spadeiltasi
allative spadellesi spadeillesi
essive spadenasi spadeinasi
translative spadeksesi spadeiksesi
abessive spadettasi spadeittasi
instructive
comitative spadeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative spademme spademme
accusative nom. spademme spademme
gen. spademme
genitive spademme spadejemme
spadeimme rare
partitive spadeamme spadejamme
inessive spadessamme spadeissamme
elative spadestamme spadeistamme
illative spadeemme spadeihimme
adessive spadellamme spadeillamme
ablative spadeltamme spadeiltamme
allative spadellemme spadeillemme
essive spadenamme spadeinamme
translative spadeksemme spadeiksemme
abessive spadettamme spadeittamme
instructive
comitative spadeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative spadenne spadenne
accusative nom. spadenne spadenne
gen. spadenne
genitive spadenne spadejenne
spadeinne rare
partitive spadeanne spadejanne
inessive spadessanne spadeissanne
elative spadestanne spadeistanne
illative spadeenne spadeihinne
adessive spadellanne spadeillanne
ablative spadeltanne spadeiltanne
allative spadellenne spadeillenne
essive spadenanne spadeinanne
translative spadeksenne spadeiksenne
abessive spadettanne spadeittanne
instructive
comitative spadeinenne

Friulian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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spade f (plural spadis)

  1. sword

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspa.de/
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: spà‧de

Noun

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spade f

  1. plural of spada

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English spadu.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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spade (plural spades)

  1. tool for digging, shovel

Descendants

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði.

Noun

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

  1. spade (a garden tool)
    kalle en spade for en spade - call a spade a spade
  2. spadeful
    tre spader jord - three spadefuls of earth

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse spaði.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. spade, shovel (a garden tool)
    kalle ein spade for ein spade - call a spade a spade
  2. spadeful
    ein spade sand - a spadeful of sand

Synonyms

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  • hake ((wooden) shovel)
  • rokko ((wooden) shovel) (dialectal)

Derived terms

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Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of spa

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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spade c

  1. shovel
    Synonyms: (more specific) skyffel, (large broad curved) skovel
  2. a spade (a garden tool)

Declension

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Declension of spade
nominative genitive
singular indefinite spade spades
definite spaden spadens
plural indefinite spadar spadars
definite spadarna spadarnas
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