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idea
English
Etymology
From Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /a??d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /a??di.?/
- (US, intrusive r) IPA(key): /a??d??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?e?di??/
- Rhymes: -??, -i??
- Hyphenation: i?dea, i?de?a
Noun
idea (plural ideas or (rare) ideæ)
- (philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. [from 14th c.]
- (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. [16th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. [16th-18th c.]
- An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. [from 16th c.]
- More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking. [from 17th c.]
- 1952, Alfred Whitney Griswold
- Ideas won't go to jail.
- 1952, Alfred Whitney Griswold
- A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention. [from 17th c.]
- A purposeful aim or goal; intent
- A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression. [from 17th c.]
- (music) A musical theme or melodic subject. [from 18th c.]
Synonyms
- (mental transcript, image, or picture): image
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (aidia), ???? (aidea)
Translations
Further reading
- idea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- idea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Adie, aide, daie
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Noun
idea f (plural idees)
- idea
Related terms
- ideal
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /i?d?.?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /i?d?.a/
Noun
idea f (plural idees)
- idea (clarification of this definition is needed)
Related terms
- ideal
- idear
Further reading
- “idea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “idea” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “idea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “idea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa), from ???? (eíd?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?a/
Noun
idea f
- idea (that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity)
Related terms
- ideace
- idealizace
- idealizovaný
- idealizovat
- ideolog
- ideologický
- ideologie
- ideový
- ideál
- idealista
- idealismus
- ideozlo?in
Further reading
- idea in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- idea in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).
Noun
idea
- idea
Declension
Synonyms
- ajatus
Galician
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Noun
idea f (plural ideas)
- idea
Related terms
- ideal
Hungarian
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?id??]
- Hyphenation: idea
- Rhymes: -?
Noun
idea (plural ideák)
- idea
Declension
References
Interlingua
Noun
idea (plural ideas)
- idea
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Noun
idea f (plural idee)
- idea
Related terms
- ideale
- ideare
- ideazione
- ideo-
Etymology 2
Verb
idea
- third-person singular present of ideare
- second-person singular imperative of ideare
Anagrams
- aedi
Further reading
- idea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?i.de.a/, [??d?eä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?i.de.a/, [?i?d???]
Noun
idea f (genitive ideae); first declension
- idea
- 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:
- Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis
- An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas
- Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis
- 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:
- prototype (Platonic)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- idea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- idea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Malay
Etymology
From English idea, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Noun
idea (plural idea-idea, informal 1st possessive ideaku, impolite 2nd possessive ideamu, 3rd possessive ideanya)
- idea.
Alternative forms
- ide (Indonesia, Timor-Leste)
Maltese
Etymology
From Italian idea, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d??.a/, /??d??.ja/
- Homophone: idejha (one pronunciation)
Noun
idea f (plural ideat)
- idea
Northern Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
idea
- idea
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Polish
Etymology
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa), from ???? (eíd?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?d?.a/
Noun
idea f (diminutive idejka)
- idea (image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory)
- Synonym: pomys?
- (philosophy) idea (abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect)
- keynote, mission statement
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) ideowy
Related terms
- (nouns) ideowiec, ideowo??
- (adverb) ideowo
Further reading
- idea in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- idea in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Italian ideare.
Verb
a idea (third-person singular present ideeaz?, past participle ideat) 1st conj.
- to invent, to conceive
Conjugation
Slovak
Etymology
From Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?id?a/
Noun
idea f (genitive singular idey, nominative plural idey, genitive plural ideí, declension pattern of idea)
- idea (that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity)
Declension
Related terms
- ideológ m
- ideologický m
- ideológia f
- ideový m
- ideál m
- idealista m
- idealistický m
- idealizácia f
- idealizmus m
Further reading
- idea in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?dea/, [i?ð?e.a]
Etymology 1
From Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ???? (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from ???? (eíd?, “to see”). Compare Portuguese ideia.
Noun
idea f (plural ideas)
- idea
Derived terms
Related terms
- ideal
- idear
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
idea
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of idear.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of idear.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of idear.
Further reading
- “idea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
idea From the web:
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way
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /we?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.
Alternative forms
- waye, waie (both obsolete)
Noun
way (plural ways)
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance
- "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
- "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A state or condition
- When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
- To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
- (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Hyponyms
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:way
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
way
- (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
- Synonym: yes way
Verb
way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)
- (obsolete) To travel.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
Etymology 2
Apheresis of away.
Alternative forms
- 'way, ’way (dated)
Adverb
way (not comparable)
- (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than Emma.
- 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
- I'm way tired.
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
- 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,
- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- (informal) Far.
Synonyms
- (much): far, much, loads
- (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
- way too
- way too many
- way too much
Translations
Etymology 3
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.
Noun
way (plural ways)
- The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- double-u
Anagrams
- Yaw, wya, yaw
Bobot
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water
References
- "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Highland Popoluca
Noun
way
- hair
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115
Lampung Api
Etymology
From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Ojibwe
Particle
way
- exclamation
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc
Tz'utujil
Noun
way
- tortilla
Synonyms
- away
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