Cade

Meanings

1. An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

1. abandoned by its mother and reared by hand

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

1. To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.

1. Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.

1. A cask or barrel.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense. * Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”). * As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).