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Ide

//aɪd// contraction, name, noun

Definitions

Contraction
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of I'd. alt-of, contraction, obsolete

    "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: […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).
Noun
  1. 1
    A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.

    "a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’"

  2. 2
    Initialism of insulin-degrading enzyme. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of integrated development environment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of integrated drive electronics. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.

Etymology 2

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

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