vide

See also: vidé, vidè, vidê, vidë, viɖe, and виде

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of divide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīd, IPA^(key): /vaɪd/,

• Audio (southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)

1. (US, African-American Vernacular) divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
2. (Parliamentary jargon, imperative) 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)

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• v., vid. (abbreviations)
• vidê

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: vĭʹdā, vēʹdā, /ˈvɪdeɪ/, /ˈviːdeɪ/

Verb

vide (singular imperative verb, plural videte)

1. See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.
   • 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

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.

Related terms

• vide antea
• vide infra
• vide post
• vide supra

Anagrams

• Devi, I'd've, dive, vied

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪdɛ]

Noun

vide

1. vocative singular of vid

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːðə/, [ˈʋiðð̩]
• Homophone: hvide
• Rhymes: -iːdə

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, cognate with Swedish veta, German wissen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wóyde, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vide (present tense ved, past tense vidste, past participle vidst)

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

Conjugation

Inflection of vide

	present	past
simple	ved	vidste
perfect	har vidst	havde vidst
passive	vides	vidstes
participle	vidende	vidst
imperative	vid	—
infinitive	vide	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	viden	—

Etymology 2

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

Verb

vide (past tense videde, past participle videt)

1. (obsolete) to widen

   only in vide ud and udvide.

Conjugation

Inflection of vide

	present	past
simple	vider	videde
perfect	har videt	havde videt
passive	vides	videdes
participle	vidende	videt
imperative	vid	—
infinitive	vide	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	viden	—

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vide

1. plural and definite singular attributive of vid

Esperanto

Etymology

From vido +‎ -e.

Adverb

vide

1. visually, by sight

Related terms

• vida (“visual”)
• vidi (“to see”)
• vido (“sight, vision”)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vuit, from Late Latin vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Compare also vocīvus as a variant of vacivus. The modern French form is due to generalisation of the feminine (Old French vuide) and assimilation vui- → vi-.

Cognate with Occitan voide, Catalan buit, English void, Italian vuoto. Also related with Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vid/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: vides
• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

vide (plural vides)

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

Noun

vide m (plural vides)

1. (empty) space
2. vacuum, void

   L'appel du vide.

   Call of the void.

3. emptiness
4. gap

Related terms

• coquille vide
• ensemble vide
• le ventre vide
• les mains vides
• parler dans le vide
• passage à vide
• peur du vide
• sous vide
• tourner à vide
• vide juridique
• vider

 

Verb

vide

1. inflection of vider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

1. grapevine

Verb

vide

1. second-person plural imperative of vir

Alternative forms

• vinde

Interlingua

Verb

vide

1. present of vider
2. imperative of vider

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: vì‧de

Verb

vide

1. third-person singular past historic of vedere

Anagrams

• devi, dive, vedi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.deː/, [ˈu̯ɪd̪eː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.de/, [ˈviːd̪e]

Verb

vidē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō

Latvian

Noun

vide f (5th declension)

1. environment

Declension

Declension of vide (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	vide	vides
accusative (akuzatīvs)	vidi	vides
genitive (ģenitīvs)	vides	vidu
dative (datīvs)	videi	vidēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	vidi	vidēm
locative (lokatīvs)	vidē	vidēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	vide	vides

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

vide

1. definite singular and plural of vid

Etymology 2

From Danish vide (“to widen”).

Verb

vide (imperative vid, present tense vider, passive vides, simple past and past participle vida or videt, present participle vidende)

1. (often reflexive) to widen, broaden

Derived terms

• utvide

Etymology 3

From Danish vide (“to know”). Non-standard since 1907, replaced with vite (sound change into a more Norwegian form).

Verb

vide (present tense ved, past tense vidste, past participle vidst)

1. (Riksmål) to know

References

• “vide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “vite” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “vide” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

vide

1. definite singular and plural of vid

Etymology 2

Adverb

vide

1. Alternative form of vida

Etymology 3

From Old Norse viða.

Verb

vide (present tense vidar, past tense vida, past participle vida, passive infinitive vidast, present participle vidande, imperative vide/vid)

1. (often reflexive) to widen, broaden

Alternative forms

• vida

References

• “vide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d(ɨ)/ [ˈvi.ð(ɨ)]

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.di/
• Hyphenation: ví‧de

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”).

Noun

vide f (plural vides)

1. vine, grapevine

   Synonym: videira

See also

• uva
• vinha

Etymology 2

Verb

vide

1. (formal, imperative) see; read

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

vide (Cyrillic spelling виде)

1. inflection of videti:
   1. third-person plural present
   2. second/third-person singular aorist

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse víðir, from Proto-Germanic *wīþijō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”). Cognate to Dutch wijde (“willow”).

Noun

vide n

1. willow (trees and shrubs in the genus Salix)

Adjective

vide

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of vid.

Venetian

Noun

vide f pl

1. plural of vida