English

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.
   • 1809 Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, p.127:

     "Ida!!!"

     "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."

     Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".

   • 1938 Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books 1993, ISBN 0749317256, page 16:

     "That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity.

   • 2002 Joyce Carol Oates, I'l Take You There, Fourth Estate 2003, ISBN 0007146442, page 18:

     "Ida" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "Ida". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "Ida" with "I" - - -

Usage notes

• Fairly common given name in the 19th century, but rare in the English-speaking world today.

Related terms

• Ide

Translations

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Ἴδη ‎(Ídē).

Proper noun

Ida

1. (Greek mythology) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.

Derived terms

• Idean

External links

Mount Ida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Ida

1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

Anagrams

• Adi, aid, AID, Dai, DIA, IAD

Czech

Proper noun

Ida f

1. A female given name, cognate to German Ida.

Danish

Etymology

From German Ida.

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.
   • 1835 Hans Christian Andersen, Den lille Idas blomster (tr. Little Ida's Flowers):

     "Mine stakkels blomster er ganske døde!" sagte den lille Ida.

     "My poor flowers, you are wither'd!" said little Ida.

Usage notes

• Popular in the 19th century and recently back in fashion.
• H.C. Andersen's Little Ida (see the quotation) was actually named Adelaide Brun.

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 22 062 females with the given name Ida have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Faroese

Proper noun

Ida f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Ida: Iduson
• daughter of Ida: Idudóttir

Declension

German

Etymology

Name of early female saints, shortened from compound given names beginning with Germanic element Ida-, Idu-. The meaning is debated, possibly cognate with the Old Norse ið ‎(“work”). Since its revival in the 19th century also used as a diminutive of Adelaide.

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.

Hungarian

Etymology

Of Germanic orgin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈidɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ida

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.

Declension

Italian

Proper noun

Ida ?

1. A female given name, similar to German Ida

Anagrams

• adì, dai, dia

Norwegian

Etymology

From German Ida. First recorded in Norway in 1660, but not in general use before the 19th century.

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Popular in the 19th century and once again today. The most common name of girls born in Norway in the 1990s.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 273 females with the given name Ida living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1990. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dɐ/
• Homophone: ida

Proper noun

Ida f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Ida

Slovak

Proper noun

Ida f

1. A female given name.

Swedish

Etymology

From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century.

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 48 005 females with the given name Ida living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Estonian

Noun

ida ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. east

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• yda (obsolete)

Etymology

Past participle of ir ‎(“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/, /ˈi.dɐ/
• Hyphenation: i‧da

Noun

ida f (plural idas)

1. going
2. departure
3. trip

Verb

ida

1. feminine plural past participle of ir

Spanish

Etymology

From the verb ir.

Noun

ida f ‎(plural idas)

1. going
2. march