See also: -idus

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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According to Macrobius (Macr. Sat. 1, 15. § 17) from an Etruscan verb meaning to divide, which he cites with Latin flexion as īduāre. [1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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īdūs f pl (genitive īduum); fourth declension (plural only)

  1. The ides; in the Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Eight days after the nones.

Declension

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Fourth-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative īdūs
Genitive īduum
Dative īdibus
Accusative īdūs
Ablative īdibus
Vocative īdūs

Descendants

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  • Catalan: idus
  • French: ides
  • German: Iden pl
  • Hebrew: איד
  • Italian: idi
  • Portuguese: idos
  • Russian: и́ды (ídy)
  • Spanish: idus

References

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  • idus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • idus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 295-6
  1. ^ John Smith, The New Hampshire Latin grammar: comprehending all the necessary rules in orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody; with explanatory and critical notes, and an appendix, Boston, 1802, p. 119: „We may derive idus from iduare, an obsolete word signifying to divide.“
  2. ^ īduo, āre in Karl Ernst Georges' Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch at www.zeno.org

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īdūs.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈidus/ [ˈi.ð̞us]
  • Rhymes: -idus
  • Syllabification: i‧dus

Noun

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idus m pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) ides

Further reading

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