nide
See also: Nide
English edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; possibly from Middle French nid (modern French nid (“nest”)), or its etymon Latin nīdus (“nest”)[1] (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /naɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪd
- Homophone: gnide
Noun edit
nide (plural nides)
- (archaic) A nest of pheasants.
- 1809, William Nicholson, “SPORTING”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume VI (S … Z), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 2:
- [A] nide of pheasants are sometimes collected in a very small space, and in the middle of the day conceal themselves very close.
- 1818, J[ohn] Hassell, “Brentwood”, in Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty Miles Round the British Metropolis; Illustrated in a Series of Engravings, Coloured after Nature; […], volume II, London: Printed [by W. Flint] for J. Hassell, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
- [W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; [...] in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.
- 1833 January, N. O., “Shooting in January”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume IV, number XXI, London: Published by Baldwin & Cradock, […], →OCLC, page 173, column 1:
- [I]f a hen pheasant takes to new ground, at such a late period of the season, she may be likely to stay and build her nest there, and thus a nide may be lost in the following October.
- 1852 May, “Latitat” [pseudonym], “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:
- Reynard [i.e., a fox], in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.
- 1876 October 7, “The First of October”, in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: A High-class Weekly Journal of Sport, Art, Literature, Music, and the Drama, volume VI, number 138, London: Published by George Maddick, Junr., […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:
- The breeding season of the present year has been favourable to young pheasants. The most glowing accounts are from Devon, Cornwall, some of the Midland counties, and from Yorkshire, where the wild nides are strong and healthy, and keepers have been very successful with the hand-reared stock.
Related terms edit
- and see: nidifugous
Translations edit
nest of pheasants
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Notes edit
- ^ From William T[homas] Shaw (1908) The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon: With Notes on the Native Grouse of the Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, plate 6.
References edit
- ^ “nide, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2003; “nide”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- pheasant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “nide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “nide”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
nitoa + -e. Coined by Finnish linguist and author Reinhold von Becker in 1820.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nide
- volume (a single book)
Declension edit
Inflection of nide (Kotus type 48*F/hame, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | nide | niteet | ||
genitive | niteen | niteiden niteitten | ||
partitive | nidettä | niteitä | ||
illative | niteeseen | niteisiin niteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | nide | niteet | ||
accusative | nom. | nide | niteet | |
gen. | niteen | |||
genitive | niteen | niteiden niteitten | ||
partitive | nidettä | niteitä | ||
inessive | niteessä | niteissä | ||
elative | niteestä | niteistä | ||
illative | niteeseen | niteisiin niteihin | ||
adessive | niteellä | niteillä | ||
ablative | niteeltä | niteiltä | ||
allative | niteelle | niteille | ||
essive | niteenä | niteinä | ||
translative | niteeksi | niteiksi | ||
abessive | niteettä | niteittä | ||
instructive | — | nitein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “nide”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
nīde