different between sadet vs cadet

English

Alternative forms

• sadete

Etymology

From French sadète, apparently from Lao.

Noun

sadet (plural sadets)

1. A type of spiritual leader or witch doctor among the Jarai people of Southeast Asia.
   • c. 1919, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol VII:

     The sadete who is most feared is the fire sadete, known especially by the savages of the Assamese slope; the water sadete exercises a less perceptible sway over the Laotian slope; the power of the wind sadete seems insignificant.

   • 1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland 2003, p. 121:

     At Cêo-Rêo, not far from Buon Choah, are located the villages of those enigmatic personages, the Sadets, of Fire and Water, whose fearsome reputation is widespread throughout Indo-China.

Anagrams

• AEDST, Deats, Stade, Stead, TASed, asdet, dates, desat, sated, stade, stead, tased, tsade

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