sped

• enPR: spĕd, IPA^(key): /spɛd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sped

1. simple past and past participle of speed

   Synonym: speeded

From SPED.

sped (plural speds)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) A special education student.

• DEPs, EDPs, EPDs, PDEs, PEDs, deps, déps, peds

• IPA^(key): /ʃpet/

sped

1. late

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “sped”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

sped

1. (card games) spades (suit)

   Synonym: sekopong

• spede, speed, speede, spyde (Late Middle English)
• spied (Gower)

Inherited from Old English spēd, for earlier spœ̄d, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /speːd/

sped (uncountable, dative singular spede)

1. fortune, luck (especially good)
   1. success (the achievement of a goal)
   2. (rare) abundance, prosperity
2. speed, velocity (rate of action, usually motion):
   1. speediness, haste (fast movement or action)
   2. power, efficacy (capacity to effect)
3. help, assistance (something ameliorative)
4. (Late Middle English) benefit (something positive)
5. (rare) intent, aim, goal

• English: speed (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: sped, spede, speid
  • Scots: speed

• “spẹ̄d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• spœ̄d — Anglian

From Proto-West Germanic *spōdi (“prosperity, success”).

• IPA^(key): /speːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

spēd f (West Saxon)

1. success, prosperity

Strong i-stem:

• herespēd
• spēdiġ
• wuldorspēd
• weoroldspēd

• spēdan
• spōwan

• Middle English: sped, spede, speed, speede, spyde (Late Middle English), spied (Gower)
  • English: speed (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: sped, spede, speid
    • Scots: speed

• IPA^(key): /ˈsped/

sped (genitive speda, plural speds)

1. lance