Latin

Alternative forms

• Īdūs

Noun

īdūs f pl ‎(genitive īduum); fourth declension (plural only)

1. The ides; 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.

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• English: ides
• German: Iden pl
• Italian: idi
• Spanish: idus

References

• idus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• idus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

1. ↑ John Smith, The New Hampshire Latin grammar: comprehending all the necessary rules in orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody; with explanatory and critical notes, and an appendix, Boston, 1802, p. 119: „We may derive idus from iduare, an obsolete word signifying to divide.“
2. ↑ īduo, āre in Karl Ernst Georges' Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch at www.zeno.org

Spanish

Alternative forms

• idos

Etymology

From Latin īdūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðus/

Noun

idus m pl ‎(plurale tantum)

1. (historical) ides