vide

See also: vidé, vidê, vidë, and viɖe

English

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of divide.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

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

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

Verb

vide

  1. (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)[1]

Etymology 2

From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).[2][3]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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.[2]
    • 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 “vide, v.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 “‖vide, v.² imp.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)
  3. ↑ OED: [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vide vide], [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/v v(.)]

Anagrams

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

Esperanto

Adverb

vide

  1. visually, by sight

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, Italian vuoto, also Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vid/
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Adjective

vide (plural vides)

  1. empty
  2. blank (page, tape)
  3. 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

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. first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
  5. second-person singular imperative of vider

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Verb

vide

  1. present of vider
  2. imperative of vider

Italian

Verb

vide

  1. third-person singular past historic of vedere

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwideː/
  • (post-Classical) IPA(key): /ˈvideː/

Verb

vidē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

vide

  1. definite singular of vid
  2. plural of vid

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

vide

  1. definite singular of vid
  2. plural of vid

Adverb

vide

  1. Alternative form of vida

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ðɨ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/
    • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvi.di/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧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
See also

Verb

vide

  1. (formal, imperative) see; read

Swedish

Noun

vide n

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

Adjective

vide

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of vid.

Venetian

Noun

vide f pl

  1. plural of vida
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