Jude

Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot.^[1] From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá), said to mean “praised”.

• enPR: jo͞o'd, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːd
• Homophones: jewed, Jewed

Jude (countable and uncountable, plural Judes)

1. (biblical) The second last book of the New Testament of the Bible.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Jud.

2. (biblical) One of the Apostles, also called Thaddaeus.
3. A male given name from Hebrew.
4. A female given name.

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jude 1:1:

  Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.

• 1968 John Lennon and Paul McCartney: Hey Jude (a Beatles song):

  Hey Jude, don't make it bad

  Take a sad song and make it better

• IPA^(key): /ʒyd/

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Jude m

1. (biblical) Jude

• Jud', Jud
• Jüd, Jüde (archaic or dialectal, the ü-form still in toponyms like Jüdenstraße)

Inherited from Middle High German jude, jüde, from Old High German judo, judeo, from Latin iūdaeus (“Judaean, Jew”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), derived from Ἰουδά (Ioudá, “Judah”) + -ιος (-ios), the former from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yəhūḏāh).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːdə/

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Jude m (weak, genitive Juden, plural Juden, feminine Jüdin)

1. Jew

   Antonyms: Nichtjude; Goi, Goj

• (Jew by faith): Mensch jüdischen Glaubens
• (Jew by descent): Mensch jüdischer Abstammung, (archaic) Hebräer

• → Esperanto: judo
• → Yiddish: יודע (yude)
• → Volapük: yud, ⇒ yudan

• “Jude” in Duden online
• “Jude” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• Judee, Judy

Borrowed from Latin Iūdaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá).

• IPA^(key): /dʒiu̯ˈdeː/

Jude

1. Judea

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

From jude.

Jude m (genitive/dative lui Jude)

1. a surname