vide

See also: vidé, vidê, vidë, and viɖe

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English

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of divide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīd, IPA^(key): /vaɪd/,
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)

1. (US, black English) divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
2. (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)

Etymology 2

From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).

Alternative forms

• v., vid. (abbreviations)
• vidê

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīʹdĭ, vĭʹdā, vēʹdā, IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪdɪ/, /ˈvɪdeɪ/, /ˈviːdeɪ/,

  or as in post-Classical Latin

Verb

vide (singular imperative verb; plural videte)

1. See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.
   • 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).

Usage notes

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.

References

Anagrams

• Devi, I'd've, dive, vied

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense ved, past tense vidste, perfect tense har vidst)

1. know (be certain or sure about (something))

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víða (“widen”), verbalization of víðr (“wide”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

Verb

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense vider, past tense videde, perfect tense har videt)

1. widen

Etymology 3

See vid.

Adjective

vide

1. plural and definite singular attributive of vid

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Esperanto

Adverb

vide

1. visually, by sight

Related terms

• vida (“visual”)
• vidi (“to see”)
• vido (“sight, vision”)

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French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vid/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

vide (plural vides)

1. empty
2. devoid
3. blank (page, tape)
4. vacant; unfurnished (apartment)

Noun

vide m (plural vides)

1. (empty) space
2. vacuum, void

   L'appel du vide.

   Call of the void.

3. emptiness
4. gap

Related terms

• vider
• sous vide

Verb

vide

1. first-person singular present indicative of vider
2. third-person singular present indicative of vider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of vider
5. second-person singular imperative of vider

Further reading

• “vide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

1. grapevine

Verb

vide

1. second-person plural imperative of vir

Alternative forms

• vinde

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Interlingua

Verb

vide

1. present of vider
2. imperative of vider

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

vide

1. third-person singular past historic of vedere

Anagrams

• devi, dive, vedi

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.deː/, [ˈwɪ.deː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.de/, [ˈviː.de]

Verb

vidē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

vide

1. definite singular of vid
2. plural of vid

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

vide

1. definite singular of vid
2. plural of vid

Adverb

vide

1. Alternative form of vida

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ðɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.di/
• Hyphenation: ví‧de

Etymology 1

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”)

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

1. vine, grapevine

Synonyms

• videira

See also

• uva
• vinha

Etymology 2

Verb

vide

1. (formal, imperative) see; read

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Swedish

Etymology

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”).

Noun

vide n

1. willow (trees and shrubs in the genus Salix)

Adjective

vide

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of vid.

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Venetian

Noun

vide f pl

1. plural of vida