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Vide
Vi′de
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vide
vide
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīd, IPA(key): /vaɪd/,[1]
Verb
vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)
Verb
vide
- (Parliamentary jargon, imperative) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)[1]
Etymology 2
From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).[2][3]
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīʹdĭ, vĭʹdā, vēʹdā, IPA(key): /ˈvaɪdɪ/,[2]/ˈvɪdeɪ/,[2]/ˈviːdeɪ/,[2]
- or as in post-Classical Latin
Verb
vide (singular imperative verb; plural videte)
- See; consult; refer to! A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.[2]
- 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:
- (For comments, vide page 151).
- 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:
Usage notes
Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 “vide, v.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 “‖vide, v.² imp.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
- ↑ OED: [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vide vide], [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/v v(.)]
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *woidh₂e, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).
Verb
vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense ved, past tense vidste, perfect tense har vidst)
- know (be certain or sure about (something))
Etymology 2
From Old Norse víða (“widen”), verbalization of víðr (“wide”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.
Verb
vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense vider, past tense videde, perfect tense har videt)
Etymology 3
See vid.
Adjective
vide
- plural and definite singular attributive of vid
Esperanto
Adverb
vide
Related terms
French
Etymology
From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Compare also *vocivus, from vacivus. Compare Italian vuoto Spanish vacío.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vid/
Adjective
vide m, f (plural vides)
- empty
- blank (page, tape)
- vacant; unfurnished (apartment)
Noun
vide m (plural vides)
Related terms
Verb
vide
- first-person singular present indicative of vider
- third-person singular present indicative of vider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
- second-person singular imperative of vider
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.
Noun
vide f (plural vides)
Verb
vide
- second-person plural imperative of vir
Alternative forms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwideː/
- (post-Classical) IPA(key): /ˈvideː/
Verb
vidē
- second-person singular present active imperative of videō
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ðɨ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvi.di/
- Hyphenation: vi‧de
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”)
Noun
vide f (plural vides)
Synonyms
See also
Verb
vide