ides
(noun) in the Roman calendar: the 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month
Source: WordNet® 3.1
IDEs
plural of IDE
• -side, Desi, Dies, EIDs, Eids, IEDs, SEID, Side, deis, desi, dies, eids, side, sied
Ides (plural Ides)
Alternative form of ides: the notional full moon of a Roman month, used in Roman dating.
• -side, Desi, Dies, EIDs, Eids, IEDs, SEID, Side, deis, desi, dies, eids, side, sied
ides (plural ides)
(historical, often capitalized) 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.
English use of the Roman calendrical term always employs the Romans' inclusive dating, including the ides itself when counting. Thus, the "third day before the ides of March" (a.d. iii Id. Mart.) is March 13th: two days before March 15th, not three.
English usage also often follows the Latin contraction of the phrasing, which omits the words ante diem. March 13th may appear as the "third ides of March" or the "third of the ides of March". Thus, the "second ides" (pridie idus) is the 14th day of the old long months and the 12th day of the other months; the "third ides" (tertia idus) is the day before that; the "fourth ides" is the day before that; and so on until the "eighth ides", which is preceded by the nones in every month.
• calends, nones
ides
plural of ide
• -side, Desi, Dies, EIDs, Eids, IEDs, SEID, Side, deis, desi, dies, eids, side, sied
Source: Wiktionary
Ides, n. pl. Etym: [L. idus: cf. F. ides.] (Anc. Rom. Calendar)
Definition: The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.
Note: Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eightth from the ides.
Ide, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Id.
-ide. (Chem.)
Definition: A suffix used to denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
