ted
See also: Ted, TED, teď, tēḑ, ťėd, and təɗ
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛd/
- Rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology 1
From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
Noun
ted (plural teds)
- A Teddy boy.
- 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
- The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).
Verb
ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)
- To spread hay for drying.
- 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:
- Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.
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Anagrams
- DET, DTE, Det, Det., EDT, ETD, det.
Latin
Pronoun
tēd
- Early Latin form of tē
- 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:
- 𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃 / 𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌏𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔𐌉𐌀𐌉𐌐𐌀𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌔
- IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPAKARIVOIS
iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mitāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd / as(t) tēd noisi o(p)petoit esiāi pākā rivois - The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee / without thee […] calm with [these] rivers
- IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPAKARIVOIS
- 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription: