rade

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rade (plural rades)

1. Obsolete spelling of road.
2. (Scotland) raid
3. (Scotland) ride; procession
   • 2009 November, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Fairies‎^[1], page 54:

     FAIRY RADES: Another favored fairy activity is the rade, or ride, a procession of fairies on horseback. The fairy rade takes fairies into the land of the mortals. The most important rades occur on Midsummer Nght's Eve, the Summer Solstice, which occurs June 21 or 22.

rade

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of ride

• “rade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• 'eard, DARE, Dare, Dear, Read, Reda, ared, dare, dear, read

• IPA^(key): /raˈde/ [ɾʌˈdɛ]
• Hyphenation: ra‧de

radé

1. (intransitive) fall
2. (intransitive) descend
3. (intransitive) precipitate

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “rade”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Unclear, somehow from Proto-Iranian *racanáH (“rope”). Compare Persian رسن.

rade f (plural rade, definite radeja, definite plural radejat)

1. rope

• litar

rade c

1. indefinite plural of rad

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rade

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of raden

• ader

• IPA^(key): /ʁad/

Inherited from Middle French rade (15th c.), from an Old French *rade, borrowed from Middle English rade, an early form of rode (“harbour”). Doublet of raid. See English road for more.

rade f (plural rades)

1. harbour
   • 1976, “Je vais t'aimer”, performed by Michel Sardou:

     À faire rougir les putains de la rade […] je vais t’aimer.

     To the point of making the harbour whores blush […] I'm going to love you.

• → Catalan: rada
• → Italian: rada
• → Spanish: rada

Back-formation from radeau.

rade m (plural rades)

1. (slang) bar, counter (of cafe, bar etc.)

Uncertain. Possibly identical to etymology 1 or 2 above.

rade m (plural rades)

1. (slang, archaic) pavement (UK), sidewalk (US)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rade m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of rhade

• “rade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.de/
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: rà‧de

rade

1. third-person singular present indicative of radere

rade

1. feminine plural of rado

• arde, dare, reda

rāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rādō

• rade in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

rade

1. inflection of rad (“quick”):
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural
2. Alternative form of rad (“quick”)

rade

1. Alternative form of rad (“quickly”)

rade

1. Alternative form of rad (“scared”)

rade

1. Alternative form of rode (“ride”)

Probably from an Old French *rade, borrowed from early Middle English rade (later rode), from Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, form Proto-Germanic *raidō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.də/

rade f (plural rades)

1. harbour

• French: rade
  • → Catalan: rada
  • → Italian: rada
  • → Spanish: rada

Uncertain.

rade f (plural rades)

1. (Jersey, nautical) roadstead

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.dɛ/
• Rhymes: -adɛ
• Syllabification: ra‧de

rade

1. inflection of rad:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative plural

Inherited from Latin rādere, present active infinitive of rādō, from Proto-Italic *razdō, from Proto-Indo-European *rh₁d-dʰ-, extended from *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).

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a rade (third-person singular present rade, past participle ras) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive, reflexive) to shave

   Synonym: bărbieri

   O să mă rad înainte de a pleca.

   I'm going to shave before leaving.

• răsură

• râde
• raz
• răzui

rade

1. past of ride

   Then he rade awa.

   Then he rode away.

rade (Cyrillic spelling раде)

1. third-person plural present of raditi

From Middle English rode, from Old English *rodd.

• IPA^(key): /ɾɔːd/

rade

1. rod

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63