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See also: viď, við, vid., víð, vid-, and вид

English

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Pronunciation

Noun

vid (plural vids)

  1. (slang) Clipping of video.
    Check out my cool new vids on YouTube!
    • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Glad I Didn't Sign Up!:
      Man, I was so pissed off at you. I got blind drunk that night, and it was a few days later before I got it together enough to check the news vids and saw that almost all those mercs had gotten killed by Archangel.
    • 2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:
      As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. []
    • 2016, Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 72:
      The vids were kind of dumb but fun, not scary or gory, and there wasn’t much math to it, really, just some graphs with curvey lines, yeah, so the vids, not much help.
    • 2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (3:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Violet Hart (Jillian Bell):
      “Do you think when hamsters watch us eat, they think we're cute?” “How could they not? I tried to show this amazing vid to my mom. She just stared at me like I was cray. My mom and I don't have much in common anymore. It's, like, a bummer.”
  2. (slang) Clipping of videotape.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of with.

Preposition

vid

  1. Pronunciation spelling of with.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

Noun

vid m inan

  1. (grammar) aspect, aktionsart
  2. sight
    není po kom ani vidu (ani slechu).There's no sight (or hearing) of him; He has disappeared without a trace.

Declension

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víðr, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz (broad, wide), cognate with English wide and German weit.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vid

  1. wide
Inflection
Inflection of vid
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular vid videre videst2
Indefinite neuter singular vidt videre videst2
Plural vide videre videst2
Definite attributive1 vide videre videste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witą.

Pronunciation

Noun

vid n (singular definite viddet, not used in plural form)

  1. wit
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

vid

  1. imperative of vide

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víðr.

Adjective

vid (neuter singular vidt, definite singular and plural vide, comparative videre, indefinite superlative videst, definite superlative videste)

  1. wide, broad
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

vid

  1. imperative of vide

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse víðr.

Adjective

vid (neuter singular vidt, definite singular and plural vide, comparative vidare, indefinite superlative vidast, definite superlative vidaste)

  1. wide, broad

Derived terms

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vide.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vid m or n (feminine singular vidă, masculine plural vizi, feminine and neuter plural vide)

  1. empty
    Synonyms: gol, deșert

Declension

Noun

vid n (plural viduri)

  1. void, vacuum

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

Noun

vȋd m (Cyrillic spelling ви̑д)

  1. eyesight
  2. eyeshot
  3. (grammar) aspect
  4. type, kind (of, +genitive)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

Noun

vȋd m inan

  1. eyesight
  2. (grammar) verb aspect

Derived terms

Further reading

  • vid”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

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Etymology

Inherited from Latin vītem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbid/
  • Rhymes: -id
  • Syllabification: vid

Noun

vid f (plural vides)

  1. vine, grapevine
    Synonym: parra

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Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víðr, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

Adjective

vid

  1. wide; having great width
    De här byxorna är alldeles för vida
    These trousers are way too wide
Usage notes

See also vidare, which has additional senses beyond being the comparative.

Declension
Inflection of vid
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular vid vidare vidast
Neuter singular vitt vidare vidast
Plural vida vidare vidast
Masculine plural3 vide vidare vidast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 vide vidare vidaste
All vida vidare vidaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse við, from Proto-Germanic *wiþr-. Cognate with Danish vid, Icelandic við, English with.

Preposition

vid

  1. at, beside, next to, by; indicating either a position close to or a time
    Jag är hemma vid fem.
    I'll be at home at five.
    Han står där, vid min bil. Ser du honom inte?
    He's standing there, next to my car. Don't you see him?
  2. (indicating an oath) by; with the authority of
  3. in the case of, in this case
    En rimlig uppskattning vid det här fallet är att det ska vara en bra lösning för situationen.
    A reasonable estimate in this case is that it should be a good solution for the situation.
Synonyms
  • (beside (spatial relations only)): bredvid

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References

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