vide

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See also: vidé, vidè, vidê, vidë, viɖe, and виде

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of divide.

Pronunciation

Verb

vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)

  1. (US, African-American Vernacular) divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
  2. (Parliamentary jargon, imperative) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)

Etymology 2

From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

vide (singular imperative verb, plural videte)

  1. See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.
    • 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:
      (For comments, vide page 151).
Usage notes

Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte.

Related terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “vide, v.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (dead)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 “‖vide, v.² imp.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (dead)
  3. ^ OED: ,

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Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

vide

  1. vocative singular of vid

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, cognate with Swedish veta, German wissen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wóyde, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vide (present tense ved, past tense vidste, past participle vidst)

  1. to know (be certain or sure about (something))
Conjugation
Inflection of vide
present past
simple ved vidste
perfect har vidst havde vidst
passive vides vidstes
participle vidende vidst
imperative vid —
infinitive vide —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund viden —

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víða (“widen”), verbalization of víðr (“wide”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

Verb

vide (past tense videde, past participle videt)

  1. (obsolete) to widen
    only in vide ud and udvide.
Conjugation
Inflection of vide
present past
simple vider videde
perfect har videt havde videt
passive vides videdes
participle vidende videt
imperative vid —
infinitive vide —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund viden —

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vide

  1. plural and definite singular attributive of vid

Esperanto

Etymology

From vido +‎ -e.

Adverb

vide

  1. visually, by sight

Related terms

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vuit, from Late Latin vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Compare also vocīvus as a variant of vacivus. The modern French form is due to generalisation of the feminine (Old French vuide) and assimilation vui- → vi-.

Cognate with Occitan voide, Catalan buit, English void, Italian vuoto. Also related with Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vide (plural vides)

  1. empty
  2. devoid
  3. blank (page, tape)
  4. vacant; unfurnished (apartment)

Descendants

  • → Romanian: vid

Noun

vide m (plural vides)

  1. (empty) space
  2. vacuum, void
    L’appel du vide.
    Call of the void.
  3. emptiness
  4. gap

Related terms

Verb

vide

  1. inflection of vider:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

  1. grapevine

Verb

vide

  1. second-person plural imperative of vir

Alternative forms

Interlingua

Verb

vide

  1. present of vider
  2. imperative of vider

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.de/
  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Hyphenation: vì‧de

Verb

vide

  1. third-person singular past historic of vedere

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

vidē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō

Latvian

Noun

vide f (5th declension)

  1. environment

Declension

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Declension of vide (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) vide vides
accusative (akuzatīvs) vidi vides
genitive (ģenitīvs) vides vidu
dative (datīvs) videi vidēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) vidi vidēm
locative (lokatīvs) vidē vidēs
vocative (vokatīvs) vide vides

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

vide

  1. definite singular and plural of vid

Etymology 2

From Danish vide (“to widen”).

Verb

vide (imperative vid, present tense vider, passive vides, simple past and past participle vida or videt, present participle vidende)

  1. (often reflexive) to widen, broaden
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Danish vide (“to know”). Non-standard since 1907, replaced with vite (sound change into a more Norwegian form).

Verb

vide (present tense ved, past tense vidste, past participle vidst)

  1. (Riksmål) to know

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

vide

  1. definite singular and plural of vid

Etymology 2

Adverb

vide

  1. Alternative form of vida

Etymology 3

From Old Norse viða.

Verb

vide (present tense vidar, past tense vida, past participle vida, passive infinitive vidast, present participle vidande, imperative vide/vid)

  1. (often reflexive) to widen, broaden
Alternative forms

References

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Pronunciation

 
 

  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvi.di/
  • Hyphenation: ví‧de

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

  1. vine, grapevine
    Synonym: videira
See also

Etymology 2

Verb

vide

  1. (formal, imperative) see; read

Etymology 3

Verb

vide

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

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

vide (Cyrillic spelling виде)

  1. inflection of videti:
    1. third-person plural present
    2. second/third-person singular aorist

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse víðir, from Proto-Germanic *wīþijō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”). Cognate to Dutch wijde (“willow”).

Noun

vide n

  1. willow (trees and shrubs in the genus Salix)

Adjective

vide

  1. definite natural masculine singular of vid

Venetian

Noun

vide f pl

  1. plural of vida
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