idée

See also: idee, Idee, and ideé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French idée (“idea”). Doublet of idea.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: ēdā′, IPA^(key): /iːˈdeɪ/
Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

idée (plural idées)

Idea, occurring only in certain set phrases which are borrowings from French:

Related terms

References

“idée” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

EIDE, Edie, deie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.de/
Audio: (file)

Noun

idée f (plural idées)

idea
- 1772, Paul-Henri Thiry (baron d') Holbach, Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles Opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles‎^[1], London: Marc-Michel Rey, →LCCN, →OL, §30, page 22:
  Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n’ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance?
  All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
- 1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Mourir pour des idées”, in Fernande:
  Mourir pour des idées, c’est bien beau mais lesquelles ?
  To die for ideas is all well and good, but which ones?

Derived terms

Descendants

→ English: idée
→ Persian: ایده (ide)
→ German: Idee
→ Norwegian Bokmål: idé
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: idé
→ Swedish: idé
→ Turkish: ide

Further reading

“idée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).

Noun

idée f (plural idées)

(Guernsey) idea

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