id

Clipping of English identity.

id

1. (mathematics) identity function

Abbreviation of English Indonesian.

id

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Indonesian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Indonesian terms

id

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing four hundred and ninety-nine (499).

• (roman numeral): ID, CDXCIX, cdxcix

• Previous: iid (four hundred and ninety-eight, 498)
• Next: d (five hundred, 500)

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪd/
• enPR: ĭd

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪd
• Homophone: it'd

id (plural ids)

1. (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?"

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

   • 2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.

• (unconscious impulsive component of the personality): lizard brain, reptilian brain

• ego
• superego

• Id, ego and super-ego on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Swedish id.

id (plural ids)

1. Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)

Abbreviation of identifier.

id (plural ids)

1. (computing) Identifier.

Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem (“same”).

id

1. Alternative form of id..

• et id genus omne
• ID
• id reaction

• di, Di, dI, DI, di-, D&I

• IPA^(key): /id/

id

1. star

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List

Borrowed from English id, from New Latin as a translation of German Es from the pronoun es (“it”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪt]

id n

1. id (psychoanalysis)

   Synonym: ono

• ego n
• superego n

From Old Norse ið. More at ident.

id c

1. pursuit, business, calling

Borrowed from Latin id as a translation of German Es from the pronoun es (“it”).

id n (singular definite id'et, not used in plural form)

1. id (one of the three components of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model)

id n

1. ID (identification or identity documentation, such as in ID card)

Learned borrowing from New Latin id.

• IPA^(key): /ˈid/, [ˈid]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification^(key): id
• Hyphenation^(key): id

id

1. (psychology) id

• “id”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• id', it

• IPA^(key): /ɪd̪ˠ/

id (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) contraction of i +‎ do, literally “in your”

   Ná téigh amach id bhoinn.

   Don’t go out in your bare feet.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “id”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Indo-European *íd, neuter of *ís.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈid]

id n

1. nominative neuter singular of is; it
2. accusative neuter singular of is; it

Irregular Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ⇒ Italian: desso (id + ipsum)
• → Czech: id
• → Danish: id
• → English: id

• “id”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
    
  • I wish you all success in the matter: bene id tibi vertat!
    
  • my intention is..: id sequor, ut
    
  • he attained his object: id quod voluit consecutus est
    
  • he attained his object: ad id quod voluit pervenit
    
  • with this very object: ad id ipsum
    
  • the point at issue: id, de quo agitur or id quod cadit in controversiam
    
  • a theme, subject proposed for discussion: id quod (mihi) propositum est
    
  • a theme, subject proposed for discussion: id quod quaerimus (quaeritur)
    
  • a theme, subject proposed for discussion: institutum or id quod institui
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
    
  • the question now is..: nunc id quaeritur, agitur
    
  • the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
    
  • I do not take that too strictly: non id ad vivum reseco (Lael. 5. 8)
    
  • the main point: id quod maximum, gravissimum est
    
  • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
    
  • there is nothing strange in that: neque id mirum est or videri debet
    
  • quite rightly: recte, iure id quidem
    
  • and rightly too: neque id immerito (iniuria)
    

id

1. feast day

From general dialectal Arabic ايد (ʔīd), variant of classical يَد (yad). Doublet of jedd.

• IPA^(key): /iːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

id f (plural idejn, plural construct state idej, diminutive wejda)

1. (anatomy) hand
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “It-Tallab”, in Fl-Arena:

     Wara l-bibien,
     fit-tul tat-toroq twal,
     batejt
     il-għeja
     il-qtigħ ta’ qalb,
     batejt fuq kollox il-mistħija;
     iżda ġarrabt ukoll
     il-ferħ u l-għaxqa
     li kull tallab iħoss
     x’ħin jasal wisq għajjien bil-ħorġa f’idu
     bil-ħobż għand ommu mġewħa.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (idiomatic, in the plural) control

   Il-kumpanija qiegħda f’idejja. ― The company is in my hands.

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd), short for id al-fitr.

• IPA^(key): /ɪdː/

id m

2. (Islam) Eid

• ID (upper case)

• IPA^(key): /²iːdeː/

id m (definite singular id-en, indefinite plural id-ar, definite plural id-ane)

1. abbreviation of identitet (“identity”)
2. abbreviation of identifikasjon (“identification”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /iːd/

id m (definite singular iden, indefinite plural idar, definite plural idane)

1. an ide, Leuciscus idus

   Synonyms: hirsling, vederbuk

From Old Norse ið, íð. Compare with Swedish id.

• IPA^(key): /iːd/

id f (definite singular ida, uncountable)

1. (archaic) effort, work

   Synonyms: ihuge, strev

• idast

• “id” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• di, ID, id.

Learned borrowing from New Latin id.

• IPA^(key): /ˈit/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: id
• Homophones: Id, -id

id n (indeclinable)

1. (psychoanalysis) id (unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model)

   Coordinate terms: ego, superego

• id in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• id in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• id in PWN's encyclopedia

id m (plural ids)

1. abbreviation of identificador
2. abbreviation of identificação

id (not comparable)

1. abbreviation of idem

• “id”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /id/

id m or f (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴷ)

1. allomorph of d

Used following consonant-final suffixless verb forms.

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

id (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴷ)

1. (only with nouns) and

• d (Ketama, Zerqet)
• i (Bunsar, Hmed, Ketama, Taghzut)

id (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴷ)

1. Ketama and Zerqet form of i

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[5], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[6], Paris, France: HAL

• IPA^(key): /ˈid/ [ˈið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: id

id

1. second-person plural imperative of ir

• IPA^(key): /iːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

From Old Swedish idh. Attested on Södermanlands runinskrifter 60. Cognate of Icelandic ið (“fidgeting”). Arguably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

id c

1. (obsolete) effort, work, occupation

   de voro nog skilda / till stånd och id, / men samma milda / söndagsfrid / låg över alla pannor dock.

   they belonged to different stands and occupations, but their foreheads shared the same mild Sunday peace.

   det unga, kraftiga amerikanska folkets rastlösa lif och id

   the young, strong American people's restless life and work

• idas
• idka
• idog

From Old Swedish idhe, ydhe (“yew”), from Old Norse *iði, from *iðja (“greenery”, literally “yew + collective suffix”), from an earlier *īṷiþia, from Proto-Germanic *īwiþia, *īhwiþia, a collective form of *īhwaz (“yew”) +‎ *-iþia (“collective suffix”). Compare Swedish vide (“willow”), vidja (“withy, wattle”).

More commonly found in the compound idegran (“yew spruce”).

• (old) ide, ijde, (dialectal) äidi
• (old) iidh, ijdh, ydh

id f

1. (rare) yew (the tree Taxus baccata), more commonly known as idegran.
2. (dialectal, rare) willow (vide) or sallow (sälg)

• ideband, idband (“yew strip; willow strip”)
• ideblad, idblad (“yew needle; willow leaf”)
• idebuske, idbuske (“yew bush; willow bush”)
• idegran, idgran (“yew spruce; willow spruce”)
• idegrön, idgrön (“yew green; willow green”)
• idegrönt, idgrönt (“yew greenery; willow greenery”)
• idehäck, idhäck (“yew hedge; willow hedge”)
• idekvist, idkvist (“yew twig; willow twig”)
• ideskog, idskog (“yew forrest; willow forrest”)
• ideträ, idträ (“yew wood; willow wood”)
• ideträd, idträd (“yew tree; willow tree”)

• Taxus baccata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Taxus baccata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“shine; burn”). Compare origin of braxen, löja.

id c

1. ide; a fish, Leuciscus idus

• Leuciscus idus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Leuciscus idus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• 1. id in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• 2. id in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• idh in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L

• DI, di

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عید (îd), from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd).

id (definite accusative idi, plural idler)

1. (Islam) A festival or holiday.

Borrowed from Latin id as a translation of German Es from the pronoun es (“it”).

id (definite accusative idi, plural idler)

1. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model

• IPA^(key): /iːd/

Borrowed from English id.

id m (uncountable)

1. (psychology) id

id

1. there is, that is

   Synonyms: yw, sydd, oes

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “id”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “id”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies