Cade
proper nounattested in dialogue
- //keɪd//
A surname
proper noun
- 1
A surname
Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
- 2
A surname An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
- 3
A surname A surname transferred from the given name
- 4
A surname A surname from French
- 5
A male given name
They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
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A male given name A male given name transferred from the surname.
Etymology
* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
Forms
- plural
- Cades