Ade

1. forming nouns denoting an action that is completed.

   barricade

   blockade

2. forming nouns denoting the body concerned in an action or process.

   brigade

   cavalcade

3. forming nouns denoting the product or result of an action or process.

   arcade

   marmalade

from French, via Portuguese, Provençal, and Spanish -ada or via Italian -ata, from Latin -atus (past participial suffix of verbs ending in -are ).

suffix

forming nouns such as decade.

variant of -ad¹, from French -ade, from Greek -as, -ad- .

1. forming nouns equivalent in sense to nouns ending in -ade¹.

   brocade

2. forming nouns denoting a person.

   renegade

from Spanish or Portuguese -ado, masculine form of -ada (see -ade¹).