did

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): DID, CMXCIX, cmxcix

Number

did

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

did

1. simple past tense of do
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see [...].

Anagrams

• DDI, idd

Adverb

did

1. thither, to there, towards that place

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian did.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

did m

1. grandfather

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Etymology

From English.

Verb

did

1. (auxiliary) added to the front of a verb, it causes that verb to be in the past tense

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

Noun

did m

1. day

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): djȅd
• (Ekavian): dȅda, dȅd

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

Noun

dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather