subside

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪd

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Verb

subside (third-person singular simple present subsides, present participle subsiding, simple past and past participle subsided)

1. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
2. To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
3. To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.

   The sea subsides.

   The tumults of war will subside.

   The fever has subsided.

   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 3, The Younger Set^[1]:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; … .

Translations

To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees

• Dutch: bezinken (nl)
• Korean: 가라앉다 (ko)

• Portuguese: esvaziar (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh (gd)

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink

• Dutch: zakken (nl), verlagen (nl), dalen (nl)
• Finnish: painua (fi), vajota (fi)
• Latin: sedeo (la)

• Russian: опускаться (ru) (opuskatʹsja)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh (gd)

To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be [calmed]; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate

• Dutch: kalmeren (nl), milderen (nl)
• Finnish: laantua (fi), tyyntyä (fi), rauhoittua (fi)

• Maori: whakamahuru (mi), whakamauru (mi)
• Old English: swaþrian (ang)
• Russian: успокаиваться (ru) (uspokaivatʹsja), униматься (ru) (unimatʹsja)

---

French

Etymology

From Latin subsidium, from subsidere

Pronunciation

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

subside m (plural subsides)

1. contribution, tax

   Le produit de taxes si mal réparties avait des limites, et les besoins des princes n'en avaient plus. Cependant ils ne voulaient ni convoquer les États pour en obtenir des subsides, ni provoquer la noblesse, en l'imposant, à réclamer la convocation de ces assemblées. (Tocqueville, Ancien Régime et Révolution, 1856)

2. subsidy, pension, monetary help

   Max Jacob vit en effet pauvrement, sans cependant manquer de rien, à cause de certaines relations qu'il a, par exemple, Poiret, dont il est vrai qu'il reçoit quelques subsides. (Léautaud, Journal littéraire, 3, 1916)

References

• "subside" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

---

Latin

Verb

subsīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subsīdō

---

Portuguese

Verb

subside

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of subsidar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of subsidar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of subsidar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of subsidar.