ode
English
Etymology
From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /oʊd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /od/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophone: owed (except Scotland)
Noun
ode (plural odes)
- A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
- write an ode to someone
- 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:
- [title]
Translations
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Danish
Etymology
From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oːðə/, [ˈoːðə]
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French ode, from Middle French ode, from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈoː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ode
- Rhymes: -oːdə
Noun
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ode
French
Etymology
From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “ode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gun
Etymology
From Proto-Gbe *-ɖẽ́. Cognate with Fon dě vocí, Saxwe Gbe ɛde, Saxwe Gbe ade, Ayizo de, Adja deku. Compare with Yoruba àdín (“palm kernel oil”), Èkìtì Yoruba ùdín (“palm kernel oil”), Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba ùdẹ́n (“palm kernel oil”), Igala ìdí (“palm kernel oil”), Edo údẹ́n (“palm oil ointment”), Igbo ùde (“ointment, palm oil ointment”), Nupe èdín (“palm kernel oil”), Nupe èdĩ, Edo ẹdi (“nut, palm nut”), Urhobo edi, with a much deeper etymology, it is proposed to be derived from a Proto-Niger-Congo root, see Usaghade útén (“oil palm”), Ibibio adan (“oil”), and Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀téndé
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ō.dé/
Related terms
- odétín (“palm tree”)
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔ.de/
- Rhymes: -ɔde
- Hyphenation: ò‧de
Further reading
- ode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Old Polish
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of od. From Proto-Slavic *otъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔˈdɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔdɛ
- Syllabification: o‧de
Preposition
ode
Usage notes
Nowadays only used with the pronoun mnie. In other uses obsolete. Contemporary variant – od.
Further reading
- ode in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.de/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.dɨ/ [ˈɔ.ðɨ]
- Hyphenation: o‧de
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) and the older ἀοιδή (aoidḗ).
Declension
Declension of ode | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ode | odet | oden | odena |
Genitive | odes | odets | odens | odenas |
References
Volapük
Yoruba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ò.dē/
Noun
òde
Derived terms
- jáde (“to leave”)
- kéde (“to announce publicly”)
- ojúde (“outside surrounding”)
- wọ́de (“to protest publicly”)
- Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde
- òde ayé (“world”)
- òde àríyá (“social gathering”)