"skaddon" meaning in English

See skaddon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: skaddons [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|grc|σχαδών||larva of the bee or wasp|g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”), {{bor+|en|grc|σχαδών||larva of the bee or wasp}} Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} skaddon (plural skaddons)
  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The larva of a bee. Tags: UK, dialectal, obsolete Categories (lifeform): Baby animals, Bees
    Sense id: en-skaddon-en-noun-P79g3oCf Categories (other): British English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for skaddon meaning in English (3.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "σχαδών",
        "4": "",
        "5": "larva of the bee or wasp",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "σχαδών",
        "4": "",
        "5": "larva of the bee or wasp"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skaddons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skaddon (plural skaddons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baby animals",
          "orig": "en:Baby animals",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bees",
          "orig": "en:Bees",
          "parents": [
            "Beekeeping",
            "Hymenopterans",
            "Agriculture",
            "Insects",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Arthropods",
            "Sciences",
            "Animals",
            "All topics",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1623, Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie, London: Joseph Haviland, page 92",
          "text": "The reaſon is, that the vveather keeping them in, they can doe nothing but breed and hatch their schadons: and when they goe abroad, they bring in groſſe Bee meat, Ambroſia and vvater, vvherewith to feed them; but can finde nothing fit to lay vp in ſtore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1669, John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, London: J. C., published 1675, page 186",
          "text": "This is a way hath been practised by the Ancients, and hath been much endeavoured after to be revived again, though not with any good success; for if you take away any part of their Combs in the Spring, they are then full of Skaddons, which spoil the Honey, and also destroy the breed of your Bees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1742, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, London: T. Osborne; M. Cooper, published 1744, page 107",
          "text": "One ſays, in September, or any Time after they have done breeding (elſe the Honey will be corrupted by the Shaddens in the Combs) […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The larva of a bee."
      ],
      "id": "en-skaddon-en-noun-P79g3oCf",
      "links": [
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, obsolete) The larva of a bee."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skaddon"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "σχαδών",
        "4": "",
        "5": "larva of the bee or wasp",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "σχαδών",
        "4": "",
        "5": "larva of the bee or wasp"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχαδών (skhadṓn, “larva of the bee or wasp”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skaddons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skaddon (plural skaddons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Baby animals",
        "en:Bees"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1623, Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie, London: Joseph Haviland, page 92",
          "text": "The reaſon is, that the vveather keeping them in, they can doe nothing but breed and hatch their schadons: and when they goe abroad, they bring in groſſe Bee meat, Ambroſia and vvater, vvherewith to feed them; but can finde nothing fit to lay vp in ſtore.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1669, John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, London: J. C., published 1675, page 186",
          "text": "This is a way hath been practised by the Ancients, and hath been much endeavoured after to be revived again, though not with any good success; for if you take away any part of their Combs in the Spring, they are then full of Skaddons, which spoil the Honey, and also destroy the breed of your Bees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1742, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, London: T. Osborne; M. Cooper, published 1744, page 107",
          "text": "One ſays, in September, or any Time after they have done breeding (elſe the Honey will be corrupted by the Shaddens in the Combs) […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The larva of a bee."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialect, obsolete) The larva of a bee."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skaddon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.