garde (pluralgardes)
- Obsolete form ofguard.
garde (third-person singular simple presentgardes,present participlegarding,simple past and past participlegarded)
- Obsolete form ofguard.
- grade,radge,Agder,Dager,Edgar,Adger,Degar,EDGAR,raged,Gared,greda,Gerda
garde n (indeclinable)
- chaperon,chaperone
Borrowed fromFrenchgarde.
garde c (singular definitegarden,plural indefinitegarder)
- Aguard.
FromMiddle Dutchgaerde.
garde f (pluralgardesorgarden)
- awhisk, abeater
- arod, penal implement
- Synonym:roede
Borrowe fromMiddle Frenchgarde, fromOld Frenchgarde, fromProto-Germanic[Term?].
garde f (pluralgardesorgarden)
- aguard(body of guards), especially an elite unit
- Synonym:wacht
- aguardsman, member of such body
- Synonyms:gardist,wachter
Inherited fromOld Frenchguarde, from the verbguarder (or less likely directly fromFrankish*warda), fromFrankish*wardōn(“to protect”). CompareItalianguardia,Spanishguarda. Cognate withEnglishward.
garde m orfby sense (pluralgardes)
- awatch,guard
- abattalion responsible for guarding, defending asovereign, aprince, more generally, of an elite corps.
- (military) sentry service performed by soldiers.
- (military) soldiers doing the sentry service
- any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.
Deverbal fromgarder.
garde f (pluralgardes)
- ahandle(of a weapon)
- aprotection(act of protecting)
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
garde
- inflection ofgarder:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
garde
- inflection ofgardar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
Borrowed fromOld Frenchguarde, fromguarder.Doublet ofward.[1]
garde (pluralgardes)
- guardianship,safeguarding,covering,authority
- (rare) A company of guardians or wardens.
- (rare) A portion of a set of armour.
- ^“gard(e,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-06-16.
- ^Bliss, A. J. (1969) “Vowel-Quantity in Middle English Borrowings from Anglo-Norman”, in Roger Lass, editor,Approaches to English historical linguistics; an anthology[1], New York:Holt, Rinehart and Winston,→ISBN,→OCLC, page186.
garde
- Alternative form ofgarth
FromOld Frenchguarde, ofGermanic origins.
garde f (pluralgardes)
- (Jersey) Aguard.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
garde
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative ofgarder
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofgarder
- second-personsingularimperative ofgarder
FromFrenchgarde, fromFrenchgarder.Doublet ofgardera andgarderob.
garde n
- guard(military squad responsible for protecting something)
- unit ofelitetroops
FromMiddle Englishgarde, fromOld Frenchguarde.
garde
- guardian
1867,CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page114, lines19-21:—t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, eegarde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.- to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromisingguardian of common right and public virtue.
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page114
