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laid
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Verb
laid
- simple past tense and past participle of lay
Derived terms
- get laid
- laid rope
Adjective
laid (not comparable)
- (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
Derived terms
- creamlaid
- well-laid
Translations
Anagrams
- Dail, Dali, Dalí, Dial, dali, dial, dial.
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *laid?. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.
Noun
laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)
- width (of cloth)
- Plank on the side of a boat.
- Side of a boat.
- board, starboard
Declension
Etymology 2
Possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laid?.
Noun
laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)
- islet, holm
Declension
French
Etymology
From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English l?þ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at loath.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?/
- Homophones: lai, laie, lait
Adjective
laid (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
- physically ugly
- Synonyms: moche, vilain
- morally corrupt
Derived terms
- jolie laide
- laid comme les sept péchés capitaux
- laid comme un pou
Further reading
- “laid” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Old French lait (feminine laide).
Adjective
laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)
- ugly
- 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43
- Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.
- The king of Castille was ugly, and his clothing unpleasant to the French, who made fun of it.
- Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.
- 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43
Descendants
- French: laid
Norman
Etymology
From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
laid m
- (Jersey) ugly
Derived terms
- laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”, literally “ugly as a Sunday sin”)
- laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
- s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
- laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)
Welsh
Noun
laid
- Soft mutation of llaid.
Mutation
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belied
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
belied
- simple past tense and past participle of belie
Anagrams
- debile, edible
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