ode

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ode"

English

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊd/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊd/
• Homophone: owed
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

ode (plural odes)

1. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
   • 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:

     [title]

   write an ode to someone

Translations

a short poetical composition

• Armenian: ներբող (hy) (nerboł), գովերգ (hy) (goverg)
• Belarusian: о́да f (óda)
• Bulgarian: о́да (bg) f (óda)
• Catalan: oda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頌詞 (zh), 颂词 (zh) (sòngcí), 頌詩 (zh), 颂诗 (zh) (sòngshī), 頌 (zh), 颂 (zh) (sòng), 頌歌 (zh), 颂歌 (zh) (sònggē)

• Czech: óda (cs) f
• Danish: ode (da) c
• Dutch: ode (nl) f, lofdicht (nl) n
• Finnish: oodi (fi)
• French: ode (fr) f
• Galician: oda f
• Georgian: ოდა (oda)
• German: Ode (de) f
• Greek: ωδή (el) f (odí)

  Ancient: ᾠδή f (ōidḗ), ὕμνος m (húmnos)

• Hebrew: אודה‎ (oda)
• Hungarian: óda (hu)
• Italian: ode (it) f
• Japanese: 頌歌 (ja) (しょうか, shōka), オード (ōdo)
• Kalmyk: магтал (magtal)
• Korean: 송시 (songsi), 송가 (songga), 오드 (odeu)
• Latin: oda
• Occitan: òda f
• Polish: oda (pl) f
• Portuguese: ode (pt) f
• Romanian: odă (ro)
• Russian: о́да (ru) f (óda)
• Spanish: oda (es) f
• Swedish: ode (sv)
• Tagalog: oda
• Ukrainian: о́да f (óda)
• Yiddish: אָדע‎ f (ode)

Anagrams

• DOE, Doe, EDO, EOD, Edo, OED, deo, doe

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Danish

Etymology

From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːðə/, [ˈoːðə]

Noun

ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)

1. ode

Inflection

Declension of ode

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ode	oden	oder	oderne
genitive	odes	odens	oders	odernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ode, from Middle French ode, from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.də/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ode
• Rhymes: -oːdə

Noun

ode f (plural odes or oden)

1. ode (lyrical poem, usually in praise of something or someone)

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ode

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French

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Descendants

• → Dutch: ode

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɔde
• Hyphenation: ò‧de

Noun

ode f (plural odi)

1. ode

Etymology 2

Verb

ode

1. third-person singular present indicative of udire

Further reading

• ode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Deo, Edo

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Middle English

Adjective

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Noun

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

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Polish

Alternative forms

• od

Etymology

Variant of od. From Proto-Slavic *otъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈdɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdɛ
• Syllabification: o‧de

Preposition

ode

1. from, since

   I nie wódź nas na pokuszenie, ale nas zbaw ode złego. ― And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Usage notes

Nowadays only used with the pronoun mnie. In other uses obsolete. Contemporary variant – od.

Further reading

• ode in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ode in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ōda.

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Swedish

Etymology

Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) and the older ἀοιδή (aoidḗ).

Noun

ode n

1. an ode

Declension

Declension of ode
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ode	odet	oden	odena
Genitive	odes	odets	odens	odenas

References

• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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Volapük

Pronoun

ode

1. dative singular of od