-ade


-ade

suff. A sweetened beverage of: limeade.
[Middle English, from Old French, ultimately from Latin -āta, feminine of -ātus, -ate; see -ate1.]

-ade

suffix forming nouns a sweetened drink made of various fruits: lemonade; limeade. [from French, from Latin -āta made of, feminine past participle of verbs ending in -āre]

Ade

(eɪd)

n. George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.

-ade1

, 1. a suffix found in nouns denoting an action or process or the person or persons acting, appearing in loanwords from Romance languages (cannonade; fusillade; renegade), and occasionally productive in English (blockade). 2. a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit, normally a citrus: lemonade. [< French < Occitan, Sp, or Upper Italian -ada < Latin -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate1; or < Sp -ado < Latin -ātus -ate1]

-ade2

, a collective suffix like -ad1: decade.[< French < Greek; see -ad1]