From the medieval male (and less often female) given nameIda.
Ide
- Asurname transferred from the given name.
- Avillage inDevon,England, named after Saint Ida.
Ide
- Obsolete form ofI'd.
1605,The Trial of Chivalry, (a play of uncertain unauthorship):Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things,Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime:[…]
- 'eid,EID,e-ID,IED,DEI,EDI,eID,Eid,'Eid,DIE,-ied,die,eid
Borrowed fromLatinIda, fromAncient GreekἼδη(Ídē).
Ide f
- archaic form ofIda (amountain inCrete)
1664,L’Énéide de Virgile[1], page218:Lors ſa mere Venus, le cœur tout enflâmé, / Aux indignes tourmens de ſon fils bien aymé, / Cueille vn peu de Dictame au montIde de Crete […]- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)