jade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A hard green or white stone often used for jewellery and carvings

   She wore a delicate necklace made of jade.

2. 2
   adj

   Having the green colour of jade

   The lake had a beautiful jade tint in the morning light.

3. 3
   verb

   To make someone tired or bored, especially through too much of something

   Years of routine work had jaded him.

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Simplified etymology

Jade has two unrelated origins. The word for a worn-out horse dates from the Middle Ages and has an unknown origin; it later produced jaded and also developed a derogatory sense for a woman. The name of the stone comes from 16th-century Spanish piedra de ijada, literally “stone of the side or flank,” because the stone was believed to cure colic.

From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (eľďe) or Erzya эльде (eľďe). See yaud for more.

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