sithe

sithe

See also: síthe and sìthe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪð/

Etymology 1

From the Anglo-Saxon sīðe meaning scythe.The spelling with <sc-> was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.
   • 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:

     […] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 7:

     Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Alternative spelling of sith

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.

Etymology 3

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (dialect, dated) To sigh.
   • c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː

     I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. (obsolete) A sigh.

References

• “sī̆then, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

Clipping of sithen.

Conjunction

sithe

1. Alternative spelling of sith (“since”)
   • 1561, Norton, Thomas; Sackville, Thomas, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex‎, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, Act 1, Scene 2, page 13:

     Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:

Anagrams

• Heist, Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, heist, ithes, seith, shite

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Middle English

Noun

sithe

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   • c. 1324, Bevis of Hampton‎, TEAMS Middle English Texts, lines 905–906:

     The king thar-of was glad and blithe / And thankede him ful mani a sithe,

   • c. 1450, “Thomas of India”, in The Towneley Plays‎, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 85:

     The holy gost before vs glad / full softly on his sithe;