idee

From Middle Dutch idee, borrowed from Middle French idee, from Old French idee, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), related to French idée.

• IPA^(key): /iˈdeː/,

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• Hyphenation: idee
• Rhymes: -eː

idee n (plural ideeën, diminutive ideetje n)

1. idea

idee n or f (plural ideeën)

1. (philosophy) idea, notion

   Synonym: begrip

This word is normally considered to be a neuter noun (het idee), but it can be considered feminine (de idee) for a philosophical or abstract idea.

• → Caribbean Javanese: idhé
• → Indonesian: ide

• (Dutch) Taaladvies
• (Dutch) OnzeTaal

From French idée, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa).

• IPA^(key): /iˈd̥eː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: idee

idee (genitive idee, partitive ideed)

1. idea (a sudden inventive thought or intention to do something)
2. concept (essential principle, main idea)

• idee in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “idee”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Borrowed from Latin idea.

idee f

1. idea

• IPA^(key): /iˈdɛ.e/
• Rhymes: -ɛe
• Hyphenation: i‧dè‧e

idee f

1. plural of idea

• -eide

Borrowed from French idée, German Idee, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).

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idee f (plural idei)

1. idea

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

idee

1. inflection of idear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative