vide

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English [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Aphæretic form of divide by aphesis.[1]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

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 [edit]

vide! (plural imperative verb;[1] no conjugation)

  1. (Parliamentary jargon)[1] 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 [edit]

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

Alternative forms [edit]

  • v. (uncommon, abbreviation)[2]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

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 [edit]

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 [edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 vide, v.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 ‖vide, v.² imp.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams [edit]


Danish [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old Norse vita (to know), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *woidh₂e, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (see).

Verb [edit]

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense ved, past tense vidste, past participle har vidst)

  1. know (be certain or sure about (something))

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Old Norse víða (widen), verbalization of víðr (wide), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

Verb [edit]

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense vider, past tense videde, past participle har videt)

  1. widen

Etymology 3 [edit]

See vid.

Adjective [edit]

vide

  1. definite of vid
  2. plural of vid

Esperanto [edit]

Adverb [edit]

vide

  1. visually, by sight

Related terms [edit]


French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Cf. also *vocivus, from vacivus. Compare Italian vuoto, Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

vide m (feminine vide, masculine plural vides, feminine plural vides)

  1. empty
  2. blank (page, tape)
  3. vacant; unfurnished (apartment)

Noun [edit]

vide m (plural vides)

  1. (empty) space
  2. vacuum, void
    L'appel du vide.
    Call of the void.
  3. emptiness
  4. gap

Related terms [edit]

Verb [edit]

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

Galician [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin vītis.

Noun [edit]

vide f (plural vides)

  1. grapevine

Verb [edit]

vide

  1. second-person plural imperative of vir

Alternative forms [edit]


Interlingua [edit]

Verb [edit]

vide

  1. present of vider
  2. imperative of vider

Italian [edit]

Verb [edit]

vide

  1. third-person singular vedere|vedere of {{{2}}}

Anagrams [edit]


Latin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

vidē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō
    1. "see thou, perceive thou; look thou (at)"
    2. "observe thou, note thou"
    3. "understand thou, perceive thou, comprehend thou"
    4. "look thou (at), consider thou, reflect thou (upon)"
    5. "look thou out for, see thou to, care thou for, provide thou, make thou sure"

Swedish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

vide

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of vid.

Venetian [edit]

Noun [edit]

vide f

  1. Plural form of vida