bide

See also: bidé, bidè, bidê, bidę, and bídě

English

WOTD – 15 September 2008

Etymology

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From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

bide (third-person singular simple present bides, present participle biding, simple past bode or bided, past participle bided or bidden)

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
   • c. 1570, Anonymous, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes

     And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

2. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

3. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
4. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.

Usage notes

• The verb has been replaced by abide in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression bide one's time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bide.

Synonyms

• (to bear): put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to dwell or reside in a location): live; See also Thesaurus:reside
• (to wait): stand by; See also Thesaurus:wait
• (to wait for): await; See also Thesaurus:wait for

Derived terms

• bide one's time
• abide

Related terms

• bid
• faith
• fidelity

Translations

(intransitive) (archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain

• Bulgarian: чакам (bg) (čakam), изчаквам (bg) (izčakvam), оставам (bg) (ostavam)
• Interlingue: ,
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 때를 기다리다 (ttaereul gidarida)
• Russian: ждать (ru) (ždatʹ), ожида́ть (ru) (ožidátʹ)
• Swedish: bida (sv)

Anagrams

• Bedi, EBID, dieb

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Basque

Etymology 1

Noun

bide ?

1. path, track, way
2. way, manner, method, procedure
3. journey
4. line

Derived terms

• bidea galdu
• bideari lotu
• bide eman
• labur bide

Etymology 2

Adverb

bide (comparative bideago, superlative bideen, excessive bideegi)

1. apparently

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Danish

Etymology

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From Old Danish bitæ, from Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːdə/, [ˈb̥iːðə]
• Rhymes: -iːdə

Verb

bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)

1. bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

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French

Etymology

From bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bid/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bide m (plural bides)

1. fiasco, flop
2. (colloquial) paunch, belly
3. (uncountable) Something fake.

Synonyms

• (fiasco): fiasco, flop, four
• (belly): bedaine, brioche, panse
• (something fake): bidon

Further reading

• “bide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Japanese

Romanization

bide

1. Rōmaji transcription of ビデ

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Scots

Etymology

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From Old English bīdan, from Proto-Germanic.

Verb

bide

1. to dwell, to live

   Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.

   Tae bide: to dwell.

   Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǐdeː/
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Noun

bìdē m (Cyrillic spelling бѝде̄)

1. bidet

Declension

Declension of bide

	singular	plural
nominative	bìdē	bidèi
genitive	bidèa	bidéā
dative	bideu	bideima
accusative	bide	bidee
vocative	bideu / bidee	bidei
locative	bideu	bideima
instrumental	bideom	bideima

References

• “bide” in Hrvatski jezični portal