spade
English
/speɪd/
noun
Definitions
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- A playing card marked with the symbol ♠ (♠).
- (offensive) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English spade inherited from Old English spada inherited from Proto-Germanic *spadǭ derived from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sph₂-dʰ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bone English
- fish English
- foot English
- handed English
- respade English
- spaddle English
- spade-handed English
- spadebone English
- spadefish English
- spadefoot English
- spadeful English
- spadeless English
- spadelike English
- spader English
- spadesman English
- spadetail English
- spadewise English
- spadework English
- spadeworker English
- spadish English
- tail English
- work English
- worker English
- spatha Latin
- spathae Latin
- spatham Latin
- spatula Latin
- Klappspaten German
- Spaten German
- spata Italian
- spade Dutch, Flemish
- σπάθη Ancient Greek
- σπαθίς Ancient Greek
- σπαθηφόρος Ancient Greek
- *sph₂-dʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- espádua Portuguese
- *spadô Proto-Germanic
- *spadō Proto-Germanic
- *spadǭ Proto-Germanic
- スペード Japanese
- spada Old English
- spadu Old English
- spade Middle English
- spatach Irish
- spád Irish
- سفارش Persian
- سپار Persian
- spade Middle Dutch
- spadagar Ido
- spado Ido
- spaid Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- spade Middle High German
- Spuet Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- spade Middle Low German
- spāde Middle Low German
- spado Old Saxon
- 스페이드 Korean
- *spatʰā Proto-Hellenic
- sipi Fiji Hindi