made
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meɪd/
Audio (General American) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
- Homophone: maid
- Hyphenation: made
Etymology 1
From Middle English mathe, from Old English maþu, maþa (“maggot, worm, grub”), from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“maggot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot- (“worm, grub, caterpillar, moth”). Cognate with Scots mathe, maithe (“maggot”), Dutch made (“maggot”), German Made (“maggot”). More at maggot.
Etymology 2
From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.
Verb
made
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:made.
Derived terms
- a camel is a horse made by a committee
- a camel is a horse made by committee
- a promise made is a promise kept
- a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
- bitch-made
- custom made
- custom-made
- full-made
- hand-made
- hand made
- have it made
- home-made
- how the sausage gets made
- human-made
- judge-made
- judge-made law
- lie in the bed one has made
- machine-made
- made dish
- made for each other
- made for one another
- made-for-television
- made-for-TV
- made hand
- made in China
- made in Japan
- made in the shade
- made man
- made of fail
- made of money
- made of sterner stuff
- made of stone
- made of sugar
- made-to-measure
- made-to-order
- made-to-order story
- made up
- made-up
- made-upness
- made-wine
- made you look
- man-made
- man-made fiber
- match made in heaven
- match made in hell
- new-made
- person-made
- purpose-made
- ready-made
- revolutions are not made with rosewater
- rules are made to be broken
- scratch made
- scratch-made
- self-made
- self-made wealth
- show what one is made of
- tailor-made
- the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
- well-made
- well-made play
- what one is made of
- who died and made you boss
- who died and made you king
- who died and made you president
- woman-made
Danish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Verb
made (imperative [please provide], infinitive at made, present tense mader, past tense madede, perfect tense har madet)
- feed [i.e. to feed someone directly by hand or similar]
Derived terms
- madding
- madning
References
- “made” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaːdə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
- Homophone: Made
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch made, from Old Dutch *matho, from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô.
Cognate with Old English maþa, Old Saxon matho, Old High German mado (German Made), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌰 (maþa).
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch made, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *maþwō, *mēþwō.
Hypernyms
Finnish

Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *madëh. Possibly equivalent to mataa + -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑdeˣ/, [ˈmɑ̝de̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ɑde
- Syllabification(key): ma‧de
Declension
Inflection of made (Kotus type 48*F/hame, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | made | mateet | ||
genitive | mateen | mateiden mateitten | ||
partitive | madetta | mateita | ||
illative | mateeseen | mateisiin mateihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | made | mateet | ||
accusative | nom. | made | mateet | |
gen. | mateen | |||
genitive | mateen | mateiden mateitten | ||
partitive | madetta | mateita | ||
inessive | mateessa | mateissa | ||
elative | mateesta | mateista | ||
illative | mateeseen | mateisiin mateihin | ||
adessive | mateella | mateilla | ||
ablative | mateelta | mateilta | ||
allative | mateelle | mateille | ||
essive | mateena | mateina | ||
translative | mateeksi | mateiksi | ||
abessive | mateetta | mateitta | ||
instructive | — | matein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “made”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
Latin
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *matho, from Proto-Germanic *maþô.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: made
Further reading
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “made (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch *māda, from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: made
Further reading
- “made, meet”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “made (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀫𑀤𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- मदे (Devanagari script)
- মদে (Bengali script)
- මදෙ (Sinhalese script)
- မဒေ or မၻေ (Burmese script)
- มเท or มะเท (Thai script)
- ᨾᨴᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ມເທ or ມະເທ (Lao script)
- មទេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄟𑄘𑄬 (Chakma script)