idéa

• IPA^(key): /i.de.a/

idéa

1. third-person singular past historic of idéer

idéa f (plural idéas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ideia.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 9:

     Pelo espirito atribulado do sertanejo passou a idéa de abandonar o filho naquelle descampado.

     Through the countryman’s burdened mind crossed the idea of abandoning the child in the wasteland.

idéa f (plural idéas)

1. superseded spelling of idea