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Etymology 1

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Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.

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Ida

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 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, published 1993, →ISBN, 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, published 2003, →ISBN, 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" - - -
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  • Fairly common given name in the 19th century, but rare in the English-speaking world today.
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Translations
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Etymology 2

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Two possible origins:

  • Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, rice paddy by the well).
  • Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida.

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Ida (plural Idas)

  1. A surname.
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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Ida is the 41038th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Ida is most common among White (51.98%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (40.3%) individuals.

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Etymology 3

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From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

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Ida

  1. (Greek mythology) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.
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Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Slovak Ida.

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Ida

  1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

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Czech

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Ida f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

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Danish

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Etymology

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From German Ida.

Proper noun

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Ida

  1. a female given name

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

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  • [1] 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.

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈi.daː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Ida

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Ida f

  1. a female given name

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Ida f

  1. a female given name

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Matronymics

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

Declension

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Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Ida
Accusative Idu
Dative Idu
Genitive Idu

German

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Etymology

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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 (work), or related to the goddess Iðunn. Since its revival in the 19th century also used as a diminutive of Adelaide.

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Ida

  1. a female given name

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Of Germanic origin. See German Ida.

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Ida

  1. a female given name

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Ida Idák
accusative Idát Idákat
dative Idának Idáknak
instrumental Idával Idákkal
causal-final Idáért Idákért
translative Idává Idákká
terminative Idáig Idákig
essive-formal Idaként Idákként
essive-modal
inessive Idában Idákban
superessive Idán Idákon
adessive Idánál Idáknál
illative Idába Idákba
sublative Idára Idákra
allative Idához Idákhoz
elative Idából Idákból
delative Idáról Idákról
ablative Idától Idáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Idáé Idáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Idáéi Idákéi
Possessive forms of Ida
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Idám Idáim
2nd person sing. Idád Idáid
3rd person sing. Idája Idái
1st person plural Idánk Idáink
2nd person plural Idátok Idáitok
3rd person plural Idájuk Idáik

Igala

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Ídá

  1. Idah (a city in Nigeria), the capital city of the Ígáláà people
  2. (historical) the capital of the Igala Kingdom

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  • English: Idah

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈi.da/
  • Rhymes: -ida
  • Hyphenation: Ì‧da

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Ida f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

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Īda f sg (genitive Īdae); first declension

  1. A mountain of Crete, where Jupiter was hidden by his mother
  2. A mountain situated near Troy

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Īda
Genitive Īdae
Dative Īdae
Accusative Īdam
Ablative Īdā
Vocative Īda
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  • Ida”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ida in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Ida”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norwegian

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Etymology

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

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Ida

  1. a female given name

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

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  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • [2] 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.

Polish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German Ida.

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Ida f

  1. a female given name from German, equivalent to English Ida
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Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

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Ida f

  1. (Greek mythology) Ida, Ide (one of the nurses of the infant Zeus on Crete)
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Further reading

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  • Ida in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Ida f

  1. a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Ida

Slovak

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Ida f (genitive singular Idy, nominative plural Idy, declension pattern of žena)

  1. a female given name

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Further reading

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  • Ida”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

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Etymology

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

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Ida c (genitive Idas)

  1. a female given name

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  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 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.