idus

See also: -idus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Macrobius (Macr. Sat. 1, 15. § 17) from an Etruscan verb meaning to divide, which he cites with Latin flexion as īduō.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

īdūs f pl (genitive īduum); fourth declension (plural only)

  1. The ides; in the Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Eight days after the nones.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative īdūs
genitive īduum
dative īdibus
accusative īdūs
ablative īdibus
vocative īdūs

Descendants

  • → Catalan: idus
  • → French: ides
  • → German: Iden pl
  • → Hebrew: איד
  • → Italian: idi
  • → Portuguese: idos
  • → Russian: и́ды (ídy)
  • → Spanish: idus

References

  • “idus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “idus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 295-6
  1. ^ John Smith, The New Hampshire Latin grammar: comprehending all the necessary rules in orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody; with explanatory and critical notes, and an appendix, Boston, 1802, p. 119: „We may derive idus from iduare, an obsolete word signifying to divide.“
  2. ^ īduo, āre in Karl Ernst Georges' Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch at www.zeno.org

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īdūs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈidus/ [ˈi.ð̞us]
  • Rhymes: -idus
  • Syllabification: i‧dus

Noun

idus m pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) ides

Further reading

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