schede

English

Etymology

From Latin scheda.

Noun

schede (plural schedes)

1. (obsolete) A written paper.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York 2001, p.85:

     a deed […] to convey a whole manor was often implicite contained in some twenty lines or thereabouts; like that schede or scytala Laconica, so much renowned of old in all contracts, which Tully so earnestly commends to Atticus […]

Anagrams

• chesed

Dutch

Alternative forms

• scheede (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schêde, from Old Dutch *skētha, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz.

Cognate with Low German scheed, German Scheide, English sheath, Danish skede, Norwegian skjede, Icelandic skeið.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxeː.də/

• Audio (Belgium):

  (file)

• Audio (Netherlands):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sche‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

schede f (plural scheden or schedes, diminutive schedetje n)

1. sheath, scabbard
2. (formal) vagina

   Synonyms: vagina; see also Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• bladschede

Descendants

• Negerhollands: skeed

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: schè‧de

Noun

schede f

1. plural of scheda

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

schede

1. Alternative form of sched

Etymology 2

Verb

schede

1. Alternative form of scheden