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Webster 1913 Edition


Ides

Ides

(īdz)
,
Noun.
pl.
[L.
idus
: cf. F.
ides
.]
(Anc. Rom. Calendar)
The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
The
ides
of March remember.
Shakespeare
☞ Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the ides.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ides

IDES

,
Noun.
plu.
[L. idus.] In the ancient Roman calendar, eight days in each month; the first day of which fell on the 13th of January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and on the 15th of March, May, July,and October. The ides came between the calends and the nones, and were reckoned backwards. This method of reckoning is still retained in the chancery of Rome,and in the calendar of the breviary.

Definition 2024


ides

ides

See also: IDEs and idés

English

Noun

ides (plural ides) (singular used with singular or plural verb)

  1. In the Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Eight days after the nones.
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Etymology 2

See ide.

Noun

ides

  1. plural of ide

Anagrams


Galician

Verb

ides

  1. second-person plural present indicative of ir

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dīsiz (goddess), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰēs- (sacred one, saint, hallow, god, deity). Cognate with Old Saxon idis, Old High German itis, Old Norse dís.

Pronunciation

Noun

ides f

  1. (poetic) virgin, lady, woman (especially when noble or magical), queen

Declension


Portuguese

Verb

ides

  1. Second-person plural (vós) present indicative of ir