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{{also|síthe|sìthe}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/saɪð/}}

===Etymology 1===
From the Anglo-Saxon {{m|ang|sīðe}} meaning scythe.
The spelling with <sc-> was influenced by unrelated Latin word {{m|la|scissor||cutter}}, and {{m|la|scindere||to split}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{obsolete form of|en|scythe}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1669|author=w:John Milton|title=w:Paradise Lost|publisher=Samuel Simmons|section=Book X
|passage={{...}}and, whatever thing the '''sithe''' of time mows down, devour unspared.}}
#* {{RQ:Landon Romance|page=7|volume=II|passage=Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his '''sithe''', had much outgrown their original proportions;...}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{obsolete form of|en|scythe}}

===Etymology 2===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{alternative spelling of|en|sith}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[journey]], [[travel]], [[wayfare]].

===Etymology 3===
Regional pronunciation of {{m|en|sigh}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|dialect|dated}} To [[sigh]].
#* '''c1475''', The Macro Plays, ''Mankind''ː
#*: I may both '''sithe''' and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[sigh]].

====References====
* {{R:MED Online|entry=sī̆then|pos=v|id=MED40559}}

===Etymology 4===
{{clipping of|en|sithen}}

====Conjunction====
{{en-con}}

# {{alternative spelling of|en|sith||since}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1561
|year_published=1883
|author=w:Thomas Norton; [[w:Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset|Thomas Sackville]]
|title={{w|Gorboduc (play)|Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex}}
|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013133834
|section=act 1, scene 2
|page=13
|publisher=Heilbronn
|others={{w|Lucy Toulmin Smith|Smith, Lucy Toulmin}}, editor
|passage=Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / '''Sithe''' all as one do beare you egall faith:
}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ehist|shite|Thiès|shiet|Heits|Hites|sheit|Sethi|ithes|heist|seith|Thies|Heist}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{rfdef|enm}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=c. 1324
|title=w:Bevis of Hampton
|url=http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/salisbury-four-romances-of-england-bevis-of-hampton
|publisher=TEAMS Middle English Texts
|lines=905–906
|passage=The king thar-of was glad and blithe / And thankede him ful mani a '''sithe''',
}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=c. 1450
|chapter=Thomas of India
|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/Towneley/1:28?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
|title={{w|Wakefield Mystery Plays|The Towneley Plays}}
|publisher=Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
<!--|page=340-->
|line=85
|passage=The holy gost before vs glad / full softly on his '''sithe''';
}}