Wade

From Old English wæd (“a ford”).

Wade

1. A topographic surname​.
2. A male given name, transferred from the surname.
   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Chapter VII:

     In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.

3. A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.

Technically, Wade should only refer to the system of Chinese romanization developed by Thomas Wade prior to the contributions and adjustments made by Herbert Giles. In practice, it was often used as a shorthand for the more proper term Wade-Giles.

• (romanization): Wade-Giles

• Wadesboro

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

From Middle High German wade, from Old High German wado, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve; muscle; calf of the leg”), from Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”).

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• Rhymes: -aːdə

Wade f (genitive Wade, plural Waden)

1. calf (of the leg)

• Wade in Duden online