vide

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

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of divide.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. (US, African-American Vernacular)[1] divide[1] (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)[1]

Etymology 2

From Latin vidē (see!), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (I see).[2][3]

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.[2]
    • 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.

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: ,

See also

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

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

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

French

Etymology

From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitum. The modern French form is due to generalisation of the feminine (Old French vuide) and assimilation vui-vi-.

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

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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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

 
 

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

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Wikipedia sv

Etymology 1

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 (when a shrub), sallow
    • 1869, “Sov du lilla vide ung (Videvisan) [Sleep, little willow young (The Willow Song)]”, Zachris Topelius (lyrics), Alice Tegnér (music)‎:
      Sov, du lilla vide ung. Än är det vinter. Än så sova [old present tense plural form, now "sover" – the present tense plural used to be identical to the infinitive for all verbs except vara] björk och ljung, ros och hyacinter. Än så är det långt till vår, innan rönn i blomma står. Sov, du lilla vide. Än så är det vinter. Solskensöga ser på dig. Solskensfamn dig vaggar. Snart blir grönt på skogens stig, och var blomma flaggar. Än en liten solskensbön: Vide liten blir så grön. Solskensöga ser dig. Solskensfamn dig vaggar.
      Sleep, little willow young . It is still winter . Yet sleep birch and heather, rose and hyacinths. Spring is still a long way off , before rowan is in bloom . Sleep, little willow. It is still winter. Sunshine's eye watches you . Sunshine's arms rock you . Soon the forest path will be green , and all the flowers fly their flags . Yet one little sunshine prayer : Willow little turns so green. Sunshine's eye sees you. Sunshine's arms rock you.
    1. osier
  2. (when clear from context) willow, trees and shrubs in the genus Salix
Declension
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vide

  1. definite natural masculine singular of vid

References

Venetan

Noun

vide f pl

  1. plural of vida