ode
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /oʊd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /od/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophone: owed (except Scotland)
Noun edit
ode (plural odes)
- A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
- write an ode to someone
- 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:
- [title]
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)
Inflection edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ode, from Middle French ode, from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation edit
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Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: ode
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
ode f (plural odes)
- ode (lyrical poem)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gun edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Gbe *-ɖẽ́. Cognate with Fon dě vocí, Saxwe Gbe ɛde, Saxwe Gbe ade, Ayizo de, Adja deku. Compare with Yoruba àdín (“palm kernel oil”), Èkìtì Yoruba ùdín (“palm kernel oil”), Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba ùdẹ́n (“palm kernel oil”), Igala ìdí (“palm kernel oil”), Edo údẹ́n (“palm oil ointment”), Igbo ùde (“ointment, palm oil ointment”), Nupe èdín (“palm kernel oil”), Nupe èdĩ, Edo ẹdi (“nut, palm nut”), Urhobo edi, with a much deeper etymology, it is proposed to be derived from a Proto-Niger-Congo root, see Usaghade útén (“oil palm”), Ibibio adan (“oil”), and Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀téndé
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
odé (plural odé lɛ́ or odé lẹ́)
Related terms edit
- odétín (“palm tree”)
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
- plural of ode
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ode f (plural odi)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ode
Further reading edit
- ode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Adjective edit
ode
- Alternative form of odde
Noun edit
ode
- Alternative form of odde
Old Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
ode
- Alternative form of od
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Variant of od. From Proto-Slavic *otъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éti
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
ode
- from, since
- I nie wódź nas na pokuszenie, ale nas zbaw ode złego. ― And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Usage notes edit
Nowadays only used with the pronoun mnie. In other uses obsolete. Contemporary variant – od.
Further reading edit
- ode in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ōda.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: o‧de
Noun edit
ode f (plural odes)
Further reading edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) and the older ἀοιδή (aoidḗ).
Noun edit
ode n
- an ode
Declension edit
Declension of ode | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ode | odet | oden | odena |
Genitive | odes | odets | odens | odenas |
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Volapük edit
Pronoun edit
ode
Yoruba edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
òde
- outside
- Synonym: ìta
- town
- Synonym: ìlú
- public
- wọ́n ké sí gbogbo òde
- They announced to the general public
- event, public outing
- market
- Synonym: ọjà