idée

Borrowed from French idée (“idea”). Doublet of idea.

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: ēdā′, IPA^(key): /iːˈdeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

idée (plural idées)

1. Idea, occurring only in certain set phrases which are borrowings from French:

• idée fixe
• idée maîtresse
• idée mère
• idée reçue

• “idée” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

• EIDE, Edie, deie

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”).

• IPA^(key): /i.de/

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idée f (plural idées)

1. idea
   • 1772, Paul-Henri Thiry (baron d') Holbach, Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles Opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles‎, London: Marc-Michel Rey, →LCCN, →OL, §30, page 22:

     Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n’ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance?

     All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?

   • 1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Mourir pour des idées”, in Fernande:

     Mourir pour des idées, c’est bien beau mais lesquelles ?

     To die for ideas is all well and good, but which ones?

• → English: idée
• → German: Idee
• → Norwegian Bokmål: idé
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: idé
• → Swedish: idé
• → Turkish: ide

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

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).

idée f (plural idées)

1. (Guernsey) idea