vide
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)
VerbEdit
vide
- (Parliamentary jargon, imperative) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)[1]
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).[2][3]
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīʹdĭ, vĭʹdā, vēʹdā, IPA(key): /ˈvaɪdɪ/,[2] /ˈvɪdeɪ/,[2] /ˈviːdeɪ/,[2]
- or as in post-Classical Latin
VerbEdit
vide (singular imperative verb; plural videte)
- See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.[2]
- 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:
- (For comments, vide page 151).
- 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:
Usage notesEdit
Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “vide, v.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 “‖vide, v.² imp.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
- ^ OED: [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vide vide], [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/v v(.)]
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).
VerbEdit
vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense ved, past tense vidste, perfect tense har vidst)
- know (be certain or sure about (something))
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse víða (“widen”), verbalization of víðr (“wide”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.
VerbEdit
vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense vider, past tense videde, perfect tense har videt)
Etymology 3Edit
See vid.
AdjectiveEdit
vide
- plural and definite singular attributive of vid
EsperantoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Cf. also vocīvus as a variant of vacivus. Compare Occitan voide, Catalan buit, English void, Italian vuoto, also Spanish vacío.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vide (plural vides)
- empty
- blank (page, tape)
- vacant; unfurnished (apartment)
NounEdit
vide m (plural vides)
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
vide
- first-person singular present indicative of vider
- third-person singular present indicative of vider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
- second-person singular imperative of vider
Further readingEdit
- “vide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.
NounEdit
vide f (plural vides)
VerbEdit
vide
Alternative formsEdit
InterlinguaEdit
ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”)
NounEdit
vide f (plural vides)
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
vide
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse víðir, from Proto-Germanic *wīþijō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”). Cognate to Dutch wijde (“willow”).
NounEdit
vide n
AdjectiveEdit
vide
- absolute definite natural masculine form of vid.