different between aide vs volunteer

English

Alternative forms

• aid

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /e?d/
• Homophone: aid
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

aide (plural aides)

1. An assistant.
2. (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

Translations

Anagrams

• Adie, daie, idea

Abinomn

Noun

aide

1. father

Asturian

Verb

aide

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /a?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.

Noun

aide f (plural aides)

1. help, support

   Synonym: secours m

2. (sports) assist

Derived terms

Noun

aide m or f (plural aides)

1. aide (person)

Etymology 2

From aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adi?tat.

Verb

aide

1. first-person singular present indicative of aider
2. third-person singular present indicative of aider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of aider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of aider
5. second-person singular present imperative of aider

Further reading

• “aide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ayde, eyde, eide, eayde

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?d(?)/

Noun

aide (uncountable)

1. Help given; aid.
2. A tax levied for defence.
3. (rare) One who assists.

Related terms

• aiden
• aydaunt

Descendants

• English: aid
• Scots: aid

References

• “aide, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

• (very early) adiudha, aiudha
• (early) aiue, aie

Etymology

From aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /?ai?.d?/
• (late) IPA^(key): /??.d?/

Noun

aide f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)

1. help; assistance; aid

Related terms

• aidier

Descendants

• ? Middle English: aide, ayde, eyde, eide, eayde
  • English: aid
  • Scots: aid
• Middle French: ayde
  • French: aide
    • ? English: aide

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

aide f

1. genitive singular of ad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin volunt?rius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary +? -eer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: vol?un?teer

Noun

volunteer (plural volunteers)

1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
2. (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
3. (law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
4. (botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
5. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.

Related terms

• voluntarism
• voluntarist
• volunteership

Translations

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

1. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

   to volunteer for doing the dishes

3. (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.

   to volunteer an explanation

4. (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
5. (transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.

   My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

Translations

References

• volunteer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.