vid

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vid"

Translingual

Symbol

vid

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vidunda.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vidunda terms

English

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪd/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

vid (plural vids)

1. (slang) Clipping of video.

   Check out the cool new vids on YouTube!

   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Glad I Didn't Sign Up!:

     Man, I was so pissed off at you. I got blind drunk that night, and it was a few days later before I got it together enough to check the news vids and saw that almost all those mercs had gotten killed by Archangel.

   • 2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:

     As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]

   • 2016, Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 72:

     The vids were kind of dumb but fun, not scary or gory, and there wasn’t much math to it, really, just some graphs with curvey lines, yeah, so the vids, not much help.

   • 2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (3:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts‎^[1], season 2, episode 15, spoken by Violet Hart (Jillian Bell):

     “Do you think when hamsters watch us eat, they think we're cute?” “How could they not? I tried to show this amazing vid to my mom. She just stared at me like I was cray. My mom and I don't have much in common anymore. It's, like, a bummer.”

2. (slang) Clipping of videotape.

Derived terms

• tri-vid
• vid lit

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of with.

Preposition

vid

1. Pronunciation spelling of with.

Anagrams

• div, VDI, IVD, IDV, div., Div., D.V.I., DVI

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪt]

Noun

vid m inan

1. (grammar) aspect, aktionsart
2. sight

   není po kom ani vidu (ani slechu). ― There's no sight (or hearing) of him; He has disappeared without a trace.

Declension

Declension of vid (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	vid	vidy
genitive	vidu	vidů
dative	vidu	vidům
accusative	vid	vidy
vocative	vide	vidy
locative	vidu	videch
instrumental	videm	vidy

See also

• dokonavý
• nedokonavý

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish with, from Old Norse víðr, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz (“broad, wide”), cognate with English wide and German weit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋiˀð], [ˈʋiðˀ]
• Homophone: hvid
• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

vid (neuter vidt, plural and definite singular attributive vide)

1. wide

Inflection

Inflection of vid

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	vid	videre	videst2
indefinite neuter singular	vidt	videre	videst2
plural	vide	videre	videst2
definite attributive1	vide	videre	videste

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

From Old Danish wit, from Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋið]

Noun

vid n (singular definite viddet, not used in plural form)

1. wit

Declension

Declension of vid

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vid	viddet
genitive	vids	viddets

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋiˀð], [ˈʋiðˀ]
• Homophone: hvid

Verb

vid

1. imperative of vide

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víðr.

Adjective

vid (neuter singular vidt, definite singular and plural vide, comparative videre, indefinite superlative videst, definite superlative videste)

1. wide, broad

Derived terms

• vidvinkel, vidvinkelobjektiv
• vidåpen

Etymology 2

Verb

vid

1. imperative of vide

References

• “vid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse víðr.

Adjective

vid (neuter singular vidt, definite singular and plural vide, comparative vidare, indefinite superlative vidast, definite superlative vidaste)

1. wide, broad

Derived terms

• vidvinkel, vidvinkelobjektiv

References

• “vid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vid/

Adjective

vid m or n (feminine singular vidă, masculine plural vizi, feminine/neuter plural vide)

1. empty

   Synonyms: gol, deșert

Declension

Declension of vid

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	vid		vidă		vizi	vide
	definite	vidul		vida		vizii	videle
genitive- dative	indefinite	vid		vide		vizi	vide
	definite	vidului		videi		vizilor	videlor

Noun

vid n (plural viduri)

1. void, vacuum

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vid	vidul		viduri	vidurile
genitive-dative	vid	vidului		viduri	vidurilor
vocative	vidule			vidurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋîːd/

Noun

vȋd m inan (Cyrillic spelling ви̑д)

1. eyesight
2. eyeshot
3. (grammar) aspect
4. type, kind (of, +genitive)

Declension

Declension of vid

	singular	plural
nominative	vȋd	vídovima
genitive	vȋda	vídōvā
dative	vȋdu	vídovima
accusative	vȋd	vídove
vocative	vȋde	vídovi
locative	vídu	vídovima
instrumental	vȋdom	vídovima

Related terms

• vȉdjeti / vȉdeti

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos, from *weyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋíːt/

Noun

vȋd m inan

1. eyesight
2. (grammar) verb aspect

Derived terms

• zemljevȋd

Further reading

• “vid”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vītem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbid/ [ˈbið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: vid

Noun

vid f (plural vides)

1. vine, grapevine

   Synonym: parra

Related terms

• vedija
• viduño
• vitáceo
• viticultor
• viticultura

See also

• viña

Further reading

• “vid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːd/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish viþer, from Old Norse víðr, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz. Cognate with Danish vid, Icelandic víður, English wide.

Adjective

vid

1. wide (having great width)

   Synonym: bred

   Antonyms: snäv, trång

   De här byxorna är alldeles för vida.

   These trousers are way too wide.

Usage notes

See also vidare, which has additional senses beyond being the comparative.

Declension

Inflection of vid

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	vid	vidare	vidast
neuter singular	vitt	vidare	vidast
plural	vida	vidare	vidast
masculine plural2	vide	vidare	vidast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	vide	vidare	vidaste
all	vida	vidare	vidaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• vida
• vidare
• vidbrättad
• vidd
• vidga
• vidsträckt
• vidsynt
• vidöppen
• vittbekant
• vittberest
• vittberömd
• vittgående

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish viþ, from Old Norse við, from Proto-Germanic *wiþr-. Cognate with Danish ved, Icelandic við, English with.

Preposition

vid

2. next to, beside, by, at (indicating proximity)

   Synonym: bredvid

   Han står där, vid min bil. Ser du honom inte?

   He's standing there, next to my car. Don't you see him?

4. at (indicating time)

   Jag är hemma vid fem.

   I'll be at home at five.

6. by (indicating an oath)

   Vid Zeus och vid min mammas grav! Jag talar sanning!

   By Zeus and by my mother's grave! I'm telling the truth!

8. to (indicating attachment)

   Miljöaktivisterna kedjade fast sig vid träden för att rädda dem.

   The eco-activists chained themselves to the trees in order to save them.

9. in, during

   En rimlig uppskattning vid det här fallet är att det ska vara en bra lösning för situationen.

   A reasonable estimate in this case is that it should be a good solution for the situation.

   En man blev svårt skadad vid ett rån på en restaurang.

   A man was seriously injured during a robbery at a restaurant.

Derived terms

• bränna vid
• kännas vid
• ta vid
• vidbränd
• vidgå
• vidhålla
• vidhäfta
• vidkännas
• vidlåda
• vidmakthålla
• vidröra
• vidta

References

• vid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• vid in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• div

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English vid.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vit̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vit̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɨt̚˦˥] ~ [jɨt̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: vít

Noun

vid

1. short for video