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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
Pronunciation
Noun
ide (plural ides)
- A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII:a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
ide m (plural ides)
- ide (fish)
Further reading
Galician
Verb
ide
- second-person plural imperative of ir
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French idée (“idea”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ide
- idea
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Adverb
ide (comparative idébb, superlative legidébb)
- here, hither, this way
- Coordinate term: oda
Usage notes
This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with ide-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see ide-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.
Derived terms
Further reading
- ide in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch idee, from Middle Dutch idee, from Middle French idee (Modern French idée), from Old French idee, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ide (first-person possessive ideku, second-person possessive idemu, third-person possessive idenya)
- idea.
- Synonyms: cita-cita, gagasan
Alternative forms
- idea (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
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Japanese
Romanization
ide
- Rōmaji transcription of いで
Macuna
Noun
ide
- water
References
- Jeffrey R. Smothermon, Josephine H. Smothermon, Paul S. Frank, Bosquejo del Macuna: aspectos de la cultura material (1995), page 34: ide ‘agua’
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
ide m (definite singular ideen, indefinite plural idear, definite plural ideane)
- alternative spelling of idé (“idea”).
Etymology 2
From Old Norse iða. Compare also with Icelandic iða.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
ide f (definite singular ida, indefinite plural ider, definite plural idene)
- whirlpool, cortex; backwater
Verb
ide (present tense idar, past tense ida, past participle ida, passive infinitive idast, present participle idande, imperative ide/id)
- (transitive, intransitive) to whirl
Alternative forms
- ida (a- and split infinitives)
References
- “ide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd).
Alternative forms
Noun
ide m (plural ides) (Mozambique spelling)
- (Islam) Eid (Muslim religious festival)
Etymology 2
Verb
ide
- second-person plural imperative of ir
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
ide (Cyrillic spelling иде)
- third-person singular present of ići
Slovak
Pronunciation
Verb
ide
- third-person singular present of ísť
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish hiþ (“a beaver's den”). Cognate with English hide, possibly from a Germanic root hīwa-.
Noun
ide n
- a den for the hibernation of a bear or badger
- att gå i ide
- to den, to hibernate, to go into hiding
Declension
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Turkish
Etymology
From French idée, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa).
Pronunciation
Noun
ide (definite accusative ideyi, plural ideler)
- idea
- Synonyms: düşünce, fikir
Declension