warder
English
editPronunciation
editAudio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Noun
editwarder (plural warders)
- A guard, especially in a prison.
- 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV]:
- Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
- 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza II, page 24:
- Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
- 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368th Night, p. 26,[1]
- So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 24, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
- Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.
- (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,[2]
- When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,
- Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3]:
- Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
- 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter III, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 91:
- If thou doſt not inſtantly comply with theſe juſt demands, he defies thee to ſingle combat to the laſt extremity. And ſo ſaying, the Herald caſt down his warder.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,[2]
- One who or that which wards or repels.
- 1876, The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East, page 79:
- The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.
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editEtymology
editInherited from Old French warder, from Early Medieval Latin wardāre. Cognate with French garder, Bourguignon gadai, Franc-Comtois voidjaie, Lorrain vadya, Poitevin-Saintongeais gardàe, Picard warder, Walloon wårder, Franco-Provençal gouardar and Occitan gardar.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwarder
References
edit- Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[3] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
- Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[4] (in French), Troyes
- Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne[5] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109
Old French
editVerb
editwarder
- (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder
Conjugation
editThis verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of warder (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | warder | avoir wardé | |||||
gerund | en wardant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | wardant | ||||||
past participle | wardé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | wart | wardes | warde | wardons | wardez | wardent |
imperfect | wardoie, wardeie, wardoe, wardeve | wardoies, wardeies, wardoes, wardeves | wardoit, wardeit, wardot, wardeve | wardiiens, wardiens | wardiiez, wardiez | wardoient, wardeient, wardoent, wardevent | |
preterite | wardai | wardas | warda | wardames | wardastes | warderent | |
future | warderai | warderas | wardera | warderons | warderoiz, wardereiz, warderez | warderont | |
conditional | warderoie, wardereie | warderoies, wardereies | warderoit, wardereit | warderiiens, warderiens | warderiiez, warderiez | warderoient, wardereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | wart | warz | wart | wardons | wardez | wardent |
imperfect | wardasse | wardasses | wardast | wardissons, wardissiens | wardissoiz, wardissez, wardissiez | wardassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | warde | — | wardons | wardez | — |
Picard
editEtymology
editFrom Old French warder.
Verb
editwarder
- to keep
Conjugation
editinfinitive | warder | ||||||
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gerund | wardint | ||||||
auxiliary | avoèr | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | wardè | wardèe | |||||
plural | wardès | wardèes | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | ej (j') | tu (t') | i (il)/ale | (n)os | os | is | |
present | warde | wardes | warde | wardons | wardez | wardtte | |
imperfect | wardoé | wardoés | wardoét | wardoinmes | wardoètes | wardoètte | |
future | wardrai wardro |
wardros | wardro | wardrons | wardrez | wardront | |
conditional | wardroé | wardroés | wardroét | wardroinmes | wardroètes | wardroètte | |
subjunctive | qu'ej (j') | qu'tu (t') | qu'i (il)/ale | qu'(n)os | qu'os | qu'is | |
present | warde | wardes | warde | wardonche | wardèche | wardtte | |
imperative | — | tu | — | (n)os | os | — | |
affirmative | warde | wardons | wardez |
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