spede

spede

1. Obsolete spelling of speed.
   • 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I‎^[1]:

     Those capitaines whiche come to faight a field, cannot stand behind a wal, or behind bankes, nor where thei maie not be reached: therfore it is mete for them, seyng thei cannot finde a waie to defende them, to finde some mean, by the whiche thei maie be least hurte: nor thei cannot finde any other waie, then to prevente it quickly: the waie to prevent it, is to go to finde it out of hande, and hastely, not at leasure and in a heape: for that through spede, the blowe is not suffered to bee redoubled, and by the thinnesse, lesse nomber of menne maie be hurt.

• Speed, pedes, deeps, Peeds, Deeps, speed

From the stage name of Finnish comedian Pertti Pasanen. See Spede. Compare uuno, hermanni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspede/, [ˈs̠pe̞de̞]
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification^(key): spe‧de
• Hyphenation^(key): spe‧de

spede (colloquial)

1. clown, fool (one that makes themselves an object of ridicule by acting stupidly)

   Synonyms: hermanni, pelle, typerys

• spedeillä
• spedeily

spede

1. dative of sped
2. (chiefly Late Middle English) alternative form of sped

spede

1. first-person singular present indicative of speden

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeː.de/

spēde

1. inflection of spēd:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular