sed

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sed"

Translingual

Symbol

sed

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sedang.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sedang terms

English

Etymology 1

From stream editor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛd/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: said

Proper noun

sed

1. (computing) A noninteractive text editor (originally developed in Unix), intended for making systematic edits in an automatic or batch-oriented way.

Verb

sed (third-person singular simple present seds, present participle sedding, simple past and past participle sedded)

1. (neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.

   Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

Etymology 2

Noun

sed (plural seds)

1. (fishing) A line fastening a fish-hook.

   Synonym: snood

Etymology 3

Verb

sed

1. Eye dialect spelling of said.

See also

• sed rate (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• des, eds, dEs, Eds, SDE, Esd., EDS, EDs, des-, Des, eds., DSE, ESD, DES, DEs

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from sedět, sedat, sednout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛt]
• Hyphenation: sed

Noun

sed m inan

1. sitting position

Declension

Declension of sed (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sed	sedy
genitive	sedu	sedů
dative	sedu	sedům
accusative	sed	sedy
vocative	sede	sedy
locative	sedu	sedech
instrumental	sedem	sedy

Further reading

• “sed”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sed”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sed”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Esperanto

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sed/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ed
• Syllabification: sed

Conjunction

sed

1. but
   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Sed, almenaŭ laŭ-sperte, ĉiuj tagoj en nia vivo estas same longaj.

     But, at least according to experience, all days in our life are equally long.

Further reading

• “sed”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “sed”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
• Wells, John C. (1992), “sed, but, only”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[2], →ISBN, pages 140, 198, 320
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “but, only”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, pages 89, 358
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “sed”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[4], →OL, page 364
• Motteau, Achille (1907), “sed”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[5], →OCLC, page 134

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto sed, from Latin sed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sed/

Conjunction

sed (archaic)

1. but

Synonyms

• ma

Italian

Etymology

From se, by analogy with e → ed and che → ched.

Conjunction

sed

1. (literary, rare, archaic) alternative form of se for euphony before a vowel, especially /e/ or /ɛ/; if

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English said.

Adjective

sed

1. the very same, the aforementioned.
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Maak 14:30:

     Jiizas se tu im se, “Mi a tel yu dis an a chuu mi a taak, bifuo di ruusta kruo tuu taim tide — da sed nait ya — yu a-go se yu no nuo mi chrii taim.”

     Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, before a rooster crows twice — this very same night — you're going to say you don't know me three times.”

Verb

sed

1. past tense of se; said.

Latin

Alternative forms

• set, s;

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swét / *swéd, ablative case of *swé (whence se, suus); and originally the same as the inseparable preposition sē- (properly, “by itself”, “apart”, hence, “but”, “only”, etc.). Compare with the semantics of English "only (that)..." (= "but...").

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛd]

Conjunction

sed

1. but
   • c. ad 65, Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, CVI.

     non vitæ sed scholæ discimvs

     We learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture-room.

   • 1522, Martin Luther, Invocavit, Sermons:

     Non vi, sed verbo

     Not by force but by the word [i.e., of God]

   • 1804 Jun 12, Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119

     Non scholæ sed vitæ discendum est!

     We must learn not for school but for life!

Synonyms

• (but): at, ast, tamen, autem

Derived terms

• sed magis (but rather)

References

• “sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sed”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sed”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    
  • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    
  • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque or sed haec (quidem) hactenus
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    
  • but that takes us too far: sed lābor longius
    
  • but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    
  • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
    

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

sed

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of sad

Etymology 2

Noun

sed

1. alternative form of seed (“seed”)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *catám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Compare Persian صد (sad), Pashto سل (səl), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Sanskrit शत (śatá), Hindi सौ (sau).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Numeral

sed

1. hundred, 100, C

Derived terms

• du sed (“two hundred”)
• sedem
• sedemîn

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

sēd n

1. alternative form of sǣd

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sēd	sēd
accusative	sēd	sēd
genitive	sēdes	sēda
dative	sēde	sēdum

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Lasovia) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛt]

Verb

sed

1. (Lasovia, Tarnobrzeg) third-person singular masculine past of iść

Further reading

• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “sed”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 193

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sijȇd (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *śědъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêːd/

Adjective

sȇd (Cyrillic spelling се̑д, definite sȇdī, comparative sediji)

1. grey (usually of hair)
2. grey-haired

Declension

positive indefinite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sed	seda	sedo
genitive		seda	sede	seda
dative		sedu	sedoj	sedu
accusative	inanimate animate	sed seda	sedu	sedo
vocative		sed	seda	sedo
locative		sedu	sedoj	sedu
instrumental		sedim	sedom	sedim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sedi	sede	seda
genitive		sedih	sedih	sedih
dative		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)
accusative		sede	sede	seda
vocative		sedi	sede	seda
locative		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)
instrumental		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)

positive definite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sedi	seda	sedo
genitive		sedog(a)	sede	sedog(a)
dative		sedom(u/e)	sedoj	sedom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	sedi sedog(a)	sedu	sedo
vocative		sedi	seda	sedo
locative		sedom(e/u)	sedoj	sedom(e/u)
instrumental		sedim	sedom	sedim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sedi	sede	seda
genitive		sedih	sedih	sedih
dative		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)
accusative		sede	sede	seda
vocative		sedi	sede	seda
locative		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)
instrumental		sedim(a)	sedim(a)	sedim(a)

comparative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sediji	sedija	sedije
genitive		sedijeg(a)	sedije	sedijeg(a)
dative		sedijem(u)	sedijoj	sedijem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	sediji sedijeg(a)	sediju	sedije
vocative		sediji	sedija	sedije
locative		sedijem(u)	sedijoj	sedijem(u)
instrumental		sedijim	sedijom	sedijim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		sediji	sedije	sedija
genitive		sedijih	sedijih	sedijih
dative		sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)
accusative		sedije	sedije	sedija
vocative		sediji	sedije	sedija
locative		sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)
instrumental		sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)	sedijim(a)

superlative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najsediji	najsedija	najsedije
genitive		najsedijeg(a)	najsedije	najsedijeg(a)
dative		najsedijem(u)	najsedijoj	najsedijem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	najsediji najsedijeg(a)	najsediju	najsedije
vocative		najsediji	najsedija	najsedije
locative		najsedijem(u)	najsedijoj	najsedijem(u)
instrumental		najsedijim	najsedijom	najsedijim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najsediji	najsedije	najsedija
genitive		najsedijih	najsedijih	najsedijih
dative		najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)
accusative		najsedije	najsedije	najsedija
vocative		najsediji	najsedije	najsedija
locative		najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)
instrumental		najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)	najsedijim(a)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsed/ [ˈseð̞]

• Audio (Colombia); [ˈsed̪]:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ed
• Syllabification: sed

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰéyti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰey-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰéytis

Latin sitis

Old Spanish sed

Spanish sed

Inherited from Old Spanish sed, sede, set, from Latin sitis (“thirst”).

Cognate with Aragonese sete, Asturian sede, Catalan set, French soif, Galician sede, Italian sede, Portuguese sede, and Romanian sede. Doublet of tisis (“phthisis”).

Noun

sed f (uncountable)

1. thirst

   tener sed ― to be thirsty (literally, “to have thirst”)

Derived terms

• matar la sed
• morir de sed

Related terms

• sediento

See also

• hambre (“hunger”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sed

1. second-person plural imperative of ser

Further reading

• “sed”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• des

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish siþer, from Old Norse siðr, from Proto-Germanic *siduz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

sed c

1. (countable, uncountable) custom (general (traditional) deliberate habit of some group of people)

   seder och bruk

   customs and practices

   tillhöra god sed

   be customary [belong to good custom]

   norsk sed

   Norwegian custom

   1. (often in compounds) good custom; good, moral behavior; morality, mores

Declension

Declension of sed

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sed	seds
	definite	seden	sedens
plural	indefinite	seder	seders
	definite	sederna	sedernas

Related terms

• forskningssed
• plägsed
• redovisningssed
• sedefördärv
• sedeförfall
• sedelärande
• sedesam
• sedeslös
• sedeslöshet
• sedlighet
• sedvanlig
• sedvänja
• ta seden dit man kommer

References

• “sed”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sed”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sed”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• eds

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• se

Etymology

Related to Persian صد (sad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɛd]

Numeral

sed

1. hundred