sithe

See also: síthe and sìthe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪð/

Etymology 1

From the Anglo-Saxon sīðe meaning scythe. The spelling with <sc-> was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.
   • 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:

     […] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 7:

     Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

Etymology 2

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Alternative spelling of sith

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.

Etymology 3

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

Verb

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (dialect, dated) To sigh.
   • c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː

     I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

Noun

sithe (plural sithes)

1. (obsolete) A sigh.

References

• “sī̆then, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

Clipping of sithen.

Conjunction

sithe

1. Alternative spelling of sith (“since”)
   • 1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex‎^[1], Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13:

     Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:

Anagrams

• shite, Thiès, shiet, Heits, Hites, sheit, Sethi, heist, seith, Thies, Heist

Middle English

Noun

sithe

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   • c. 1324, Bevis of Hampton‎^[2], TEAMS Middle English Texts, lines 905–906:

     The king thar-of was glad and blithe / And thankede him ful mani a sithe,

   • c. 1450, “Thomas of India”, in The Towneley Plays‎^[3], Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 85:

     The holy gost before vs glad / full softly on his sithe;