different between stade vs slade

English

Etymology 1

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (historical units of measure, dated) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).
2. (dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
3. A stage of progress
   1. (obsolete) in a journey.
   2. (medicine, obsolete) of a disease.
   3. (geology) in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

Etymology 2

From Spanish estado, from Latin status (“standing”). Doublet of estate, state, and status.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of fathom.

Etymology 3

From Dutch stad. Doublet of stead.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (rare, obsolete) A chief town in an area or country.

Etymology 4

From German Stade, a town in Hanover.

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (obsolete) Fabric or textiles from or similar to those of Stade.

Etymology 5

From Old English staed. Cognate with German Gestade (“shore”).

Noun

stade (plural stades)

1. (nautical, obsolete) A station for ships, as an anchorage or wharf.

Related terms

• staith

References

• "stade, n.¹", "n.²", "n.³", & "n.⁴", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "stade" in William Henry Smith's 1867 The Sailor's Word-Book.

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

stade

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of stad

French

Etymology

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (stádion), neuter form of ??????? (stádios, “stable, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to be standing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stad/
• Homophone: stades

Noun

stade m (plural stades)

1. (historical) stadium (Ancient Greek unit of measurement)
2. stadium (Greek race course)
3. stadium (sports arena)
4. (medicine) stage

5. stage (phase)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dates, datés

Gothic

Romanization

stade

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stade

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of standa

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sle?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-Germanic *slad? (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladan? (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

   • Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 222[1]:

     The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades,

     And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)

     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

2. (obsolete) The sole of a plough.

Etymology 2

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. A spade for digging peat.

Anagrams

• Dales, Delas, dales, deals, desal, lades, lased, leads, seal'd

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slad?]

Noun

slade

1. vocative singular of slad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

slade (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of slad