Lide

• IPA^(key): /laɪd/

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) +‎ -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

Lide (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
   • 1686-1687, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (Lansdowne MS. 231)‎, London: W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., published 1881, page 13:

     "Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."

   • 1866, Thomas Q. Couch, “Popular Antiquities: Tinner Folk Lore”, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall‎, number VI, Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall, page 132:

     I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'

   • 1970, Jürgen Schäfer, “The Hard Word Dictionaries: A Re-Assessment”, in Leeds Studies in English, volume n.s. 4, Leeds: University of Leeds, →ISSN, page 47:

     Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome

From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid.

Lide (plural Lides)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lide is the 35622^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 631 individuals. Lide is most common among White (54.83%) and Black/African American (40.25%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lide”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 434.

• Diel, IDLE, Idle, deli, diel, eild, idle, lied

Coined by Sabino Arana as an equivalent of Spanish Lidia.

• IPA^(key): /lide/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: Li‧de

Lide anim

1. a female given name

• “Lide”, in Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia [Basque Onomastic Database], Euskaltzaindia
• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 270

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːdə/

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• Homophone: Liede

Lide

1. (archaic) dative singular of Lid