Borrowed fromFrenchaide("aid; assistant", as inaide-de-camp(“field assistant”)). More ataid.
aide (pluralaides)
- Anassistant.
1994, Herbert L. Abrams,The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press,→ISBN,page126:Theaide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, inThe New York Times[1]:Weiner and hisaides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism[…]
- (military) Anofficer who acts as assistant to a moresenior one; anaide-de-camp.
military: officer who acts as an assistant to a more senior one
—seeaide-de-campaide
- father
aide
- first-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofaidar
- third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofaidar
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchayde, fromOld Frenchaide,aie, fromaidier (modernOld Frenchaider(“to help”)). The medial-d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.
aide f (pluralaides)
- help,support
- Synonym:secours m
à l'aide d'un ordinateur- with thehelp of a computer
Votre protection est sa seuleaide.- Your protection is her solesupport.
Il faut uneaide financière pour les victimes.- There must be financialaid for the victims.
- (sports)assist
aide m orfby sense (pluralaides)
- aide (person)
Fromaider, with the third-person singular form corresponding toLatinadiūtat.
aide
- inflection ofaider:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularpresentimperative
Borrowed fromOld Frenchaide.
aide (uncountable)
- Help given;aid.
- A tax levied fordefence.
- (rare) One whoassists.
Fromaidier. The regular form would have beenaie, which is in fact attested;aide is a remodeling on the verb.
aideoblique singular, f (oblique pluralaides,nominative singularaide,nominative pluralaides)
- help;assistance;aid
aide
- alternative form ofhaide
aide f
- genitivesingular ofad
