Lide

• IPA^(key): /laɪd/

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) +‎ -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

• Leede (obsolete)

Lide (uncountable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
   • 1686-1687, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (Lansdowne MS. 231)‎^[1], London: W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., published 1881, page 13:

     "Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play."

   • 1866, Thomas Q. Couch, “Popular Antiquities: Tinner Folk Lore”, in Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall‎^[2], number VI, Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall, page 132:

     I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'

   • 1970, Jürgen Schäfer, “The Hard Word Dictionaries: A Re-Assessment”, in Leeds Studies in English, volume n.s. 4, Leeds: University of Leeds, →ISSN, page 47:

     Bullokar's spelling is retained: bardes, glinne ("glen"), leede ("lide"), narre, palliard, palliardise, sprent, viands, whilome

   • 2005, Johanna Sinisalo, The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, page 12:

     And so it was that in the month of Lide (the villagers' name for Martius) a great wolf hunt was to be held in Suuremõisa once again, as soon as the ice across the strait of Soela had begun to thin and could no longer bear so much as a wolf's paw, […]

From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid.

Lide (plural Lides)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lide is the 35622^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 631 individuals. Lide is most common among White (54.83%) and Black/African American (40.25%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lide”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 434.

• Diel, IDLE, Idle, deli, diel, eild, idle, lied

Coined by Sabino Arana as an equivalent of Spanish Lidia.

• IPA^(key): /lide/ [li.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide, -e
• Hyphenation: Li‧de

Lide anim

1. a female given name

• “Lide”, in Euskal Onomastikaren Datutegia [Basque Onomastic Database], Euskaltzaindia
• Xarles Bidegain, Izendegia, 1999, Elkarlanean, Donostia, →ISBN, page 270

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːdə/

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• Homophone: Liede

Lide

1. (archaic) dative singular of Lid