different between cadet vs plebe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.

Doublet of caddy, caudillo, and capitellum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k??d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: ca?det

Noun

cadet (plural cadets)

1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.

Derived terms

• air cadet
• space cadet

Related terms

• cadette

Translations

References

Further reading

• cadet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acted, ectad

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau and cadeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.d?/

Adjective

cadet (feminine singular cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)

1. (family) youngest

Noun

cadet m (plural cadets)

1. cadet, student officer
2. junior sportsperson, young player
3. a younger sibling

Derived terms

• cadet des soucis de

Descendants

• ? Czech: kadet
• ? English: cadet
  • ? Cebuano: kadete (with Spanish cadete)
• ? Dutch: kadee, kadet
• ? German: Kadett
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ?????
    • Latin: kadet
  • ? Vilamovian: kadet
• ? Finnish: kadetti
• ? Indonesian: kadet
• ? Italian: cadetto
• ? Polish: kadet
• ? Portuguese: cadete
• ? Russian: ????? (kadet)
  • ? English: Kadet
• ? Scots: caddie
  • ? English: caddie, caddy, cad
• ? Spanish: cadete
  • ? Cebuano: kadete (with English cadet)

See also

• benjamin

Further reading

• “cadet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cédât

Latin

Verb

cadet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of cad?

Romanian

Etymology

From French cadet

Noun

cadet m (plural cade?i)

1. cadet

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin pl?bs (“the plebeian class”), probably via Middle French plebe (“plebeians, commoners, the rabble”) and possibly later understood as a clipping of plebeian. Cognate with Italian plebe, Spanish plebe, Portuguese plebe.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /plib/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pli?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

plebe (plural plebes)

1. (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
   • 1583, Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum, Vol. I, Ch. xvi:

     The patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at last all magistrates were made common betweene them.

2. (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.
   • 1612, Thomas Heywood, An Apology for Actors, Ch. ii:

     All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.

3. (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.
4. (US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, p. 85:

     My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

   • 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point (page 84)

     "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
     "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

Related terms

• pleb, plebs, plebeian

Derived terms

• pleb, plebe class, plebe year, plebeskin

Translations

References

• “plebe, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Anagrams

• bleep

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bem, accusative form of pl?bs. Compare the doublet pieve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?.be/
• Hyphenation: plè?be

Noun

plebe f (plural plebi)

1. Common people
2. rabble, riffraff

Related terms

• plebaglia
• plebeo
• plebiscito

Latin

Noun

pl?be

1. ablative singular of pl?bs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebs (the common people)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French plèbe, Latin plebs, plebem.

Noun

plebe f (uncountable)

1. plebs, the common people, commonality, commoners, the lower orders

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plebe/, [?ple.??e]

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebeians, common people

   Synonym: chusma

2. (historical) plebs

Related terms

• plebeyo

Noun

plebe m or f (plural plebes)

1. (colloquial, Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico) kid, child
2. (New Mexico) kids, children, mass noun, compare with gente usage

Further reading

• “plebe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.