Ide

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ide"

English

Etymology 1

From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.

Proper noun

Ide

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990). [1]

See also

Etymology 2

Contraction

Ide

  1. Obsolete form of I'd.
    • 1605, The Trial of Chivalry, (a play of uncertain unauthorship):
      Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Devon)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Ida, from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /id/

Proper noun

Ide f

  1. archaic form of Ida (a mountain in Crete)
    • 1664, L’Énéide de Virgile‎[1], page 218:
      Lors ſa mere Venus, le cœur tout enflâmé, / Aux indignes tourmens de ſon fils bien aymé, / Cueille vn peu de Dictame au mont Ide de Crete […]
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