sed

sed

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sedang.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sedang terms

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• IPA^(key): /sɛd/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: said

sed

1. (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

sed (third-person singular simple present seds, present participle sedding, simple past and past participle sedded)

1. (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using .

   Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

sed (plural seds)

1. (fishing) A line fastening a fish-hook.

   Synonym: snood

sed

1. Eye dialect spelling of said.

• sed rate (etymologically unrelated)

• des, eds, dEs, Eds, SDE, Esd., EDS, EDs, des-, Des, eds., DSE, ESD, DES, DEs

Deverbal from sedět, sedat, sednout.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛt]
• Hyphenation: sed

sed m inan

1. sitting position

• “sed”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sed”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sed”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Latin sed.

• IPA^(key): /sed/
• Rhymes: -ed
• Hyphenation: sed

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sed

1. but

From Esperanto sed, from Latin sed.

• IPA^(key): /sed/

sed

1. (archaic) but

• ma

From se, by analogy with e → ed and che → ched.

sed

1. (literary, rare, archaic) alternative form of se for euphony before a vowel, especially /e/ or /ɛ/; if

Derived from English said.

sed

1. the very same, the aforementioned.
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Maak 14:30:

     Jiizas se tu im se, “Mi a tel yu dis an a chuu mi a taak, bifuo di ruusta kruo tuu taim tide — da sed nait ya — yu a-go se yu no nuo mi chrii taim.”

     Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, before a rooster crows twice — this very same night — you're going to say you don't know me three times.”

sed

1. past tense of se; said.

• set, s;

From Proto-Indo-European *swét / *swéd, ablative case of *swé (whence se, suus); and originally the same as the inseparable preposition sē- (properly, “by itself”, “apart”, hence, “but”, “only”, etc.). Compare with the semantics of English "only (that)..." (= "but...").

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛd̪]

sed

1. but
   • c. ad 65, Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, CVI.

     non vitæ sed scholæ discimvs

     We learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture-room.

   • 1522, Martin Luther, Invocavit, Sermons:

     Non vi, sed verbo

     Not by force but by the word [i.e., of God]

   • 1804 Jun 12, Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119

     Non scholæ sed vitæ discendum est!

     We must learn not for school but for life!

• (but): at, ast, tamen, autem

• sed magis (but rather)

• “sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sed in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    
  • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    
  • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    
  • but that takes us too far: sed lābor longius
    
  • but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    
  • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
    

sed

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of sad

sed

1. alternative form of seed (“seed”)

From Proto-Iranian *catám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Persian صد (sad), Pashto سل (səl), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Sanskrit शत (śatá), Hindi सौ (sau).

• Rhymes: -ɛd

sed

1. hundred, 100, C

• du sed (“two hundred”)
• sedem
• sedemîn

• IPA^(key): /seːd/

sēd n

1. alternative form of sǣd

Strong a-stem:

• sijȇd (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *śědъ.

• IPA^(key): /sêːd/

sȇd (Cyrillic spelling се̑д, definite sȇdī, comparative sediji)

1. grey (usually of hair)
2. grey-haired

• IPA^(key): /ˈsed/ [ˈseð̞]

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• Rhymes: -ed
• Syllabification: sed

Inherited from Latin sitis (“thirst”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, decrease”). Cognate with Aragonese sete, Portuguese sede. Doublet of tisis.

sed f (plural sedes)

1. thirst

   Tengo sed.

   I'm thirsty.

• hambre f

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sed

1. second-person plural imperative of ser

• “sed”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• des

From Old Swedish siþer, from Old Norse siðr, from Proto-Germanic *siduz.

• Rhymes: -eːd

sed c

1. (countable, uncountable) custom (general (traditional) deliberate habit of some group of people)

   seder och bruk

   customs and practices

   tillhöra god sed

   be customary [belong to good custom]

   norsk sed

   Norwegian custom

   1. (often in compounds) good custom; good, moral behavior; morality, mores

• sed in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sed in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sed in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• eds

• se

Related to Persian صد (sad).

• IPA^(key): [sɛd]

sed

1. hundred