did

See also: Did, DID, and дід

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): DID, CMXCIX, cmxcix

Number

did

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).

See also

• Previous: diid (nine hundred and ninety-eight, 998)
• Next: dd (one thousand, 1000)

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

• Audio (CA)

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

did

1. simple past tense of do
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see [...].

Anagrams

• DDI, idd

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Danish

Adverb

did

1. thither, to there, towards that place

Synonyms

• dertil

Coordinate terms

• hid, der

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Novial

Etymology

From English.

Verb

did

1. (auxiliary) added to the front of a verb, it causes that verb to be in the past tense

Usage notes

• An equivalent effect can be obtained by adding the ending -d to the verb.

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Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

Noun

did m

1. day

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: dyð
  • Welsh: dydd

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• djȅd (Ijekavian)
• dȅda, dȅd (Ekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather

Declension

Declension of did

	singular	plural
nominative	dȉd	dìdovi/didi
genitive	dida	didova/dida
dative	didu	didovima/didima
accusative	dida	didove/dide
vocative	dide	didovi/didi
locative	didu	didovima/didima
instrumental	didom	didovima/didima

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Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian did.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

did m

1. grandfather

Declension

    declension of did

	singular	plural
nominative	did	dida
genitive	dida	didi, did
dative	didu	didi, didami
accusative	did, dida	dida
locative	didu	dida
instrumental	didom, didam	didi, didami

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).