"Faden" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfaːdn̩/ Audio: De-Faden.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German vadem, from Old High German fadum, from Proto-West Germanic *faþm (“embrace”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|de|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|de|gmh|vadem}} Middle High German vadem, {{inh|de|goh|fadum}} Old High German fadum, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*faþm||embrace}} Proto-West Germanic *faþm (“embrace”) Head templates: {{de-noun|m,,^:-|dim=Fädchen}} Faden m (strong, genitive Fadens, plural Fäden or Faden, diminutive Fädchen n) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,,^:-}} Forms: Fadens [genitive], Fäden [plural], Faden [plural], Fädchen [diminutive, neuter], strong [table-tags], Faden [nominative, singular], Fäden [definite, nominative, plural], Faden [definite, nominative, plural], Fadens [genitive, singular], Fäden [definite, genitive, plural], Faden [definite, genitive, plural], Faden [dative, singular], Fäden [dative, definite, plural], Faden [dative, definite, plural], Faden [accusative, singular], Fäden [accusative, definite, plural], Faden [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. yarn, thread Tags: masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-Faden-de-noun-RrxQHg-V
  2. (nautical) fathom Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-Faden-de-noun-pmOm6KRs Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 9 55 37 Topics: nautical, transport
  3. (medicine) suture Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-Faden-de-noun-PFo38qTs Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Bindfaden, den Faden verlieren, Fadenabstand, Fadenalge, Fadenbakterie, Fadendicke, Fadenende, fadenförmig, Fadenkreuz, Fadenlänge, Fadennudel, Fadenriss, fadenscheinig, Fadenwurm, Geduldsfaden, Glühfaden, Goldfaden, Haarfaden, Hanffaden, Kettfaden, Kohlefaden, Kunstfaserfaden, Kunststofffaden, Lebensfaden, Leinenfaden, Leitfaden, Nylonfaden, Perlonfaden, roter Faden, Schussfaden, Seidenfaden, Silberfaden, Spinnfaden, Webfaden, Wollfaden, Zwirnsfaden

Inflected forms

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  "word": "Faden"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.