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/aɪdz/

Definition of ides

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noun

  1. (capitalized, historical, often)The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
    “Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas... habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne. Those months that have 4 nones after the kalends... have 13 days to the ides and eighteen to the second kalends.”
    “The Roman Month its several days divides By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.”
    “The third day before the ides of March is March 13th; the third ides of August is August 11th; and the third of the ides of November is November 11th.”
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noun

  1. (capitalized, historical, often)The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
    “Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas... habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne. Those months that have 4 nones after the kalends... have 13 days to the ides and eighteen to the second kalends.”
    “The Roman Month its several days divides By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.”
    “The third day before the ides of March is March 13th; the third ides of August is August 11th; and the third of the ides of November is November 11th.”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of ide
  3. (form-of, plural)plural of IDE
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of ides: the notional full moon of a Roman month, used in Roman dating.

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Etymology

From Middle English ides, idus, from Anglo-Norman and Old French ides, from Latin īdūs, a fourth-declension plurale tantum, from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. The Latin term is cognate with Oscan eiduis, both perhaps deriving from an unknown Etruscan term. Middle English and Old French also used the singular form ide.

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