different between multitude vs pod

English

Etymology

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- +? -tude.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?lt?tju?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??t(j)ud/, /?m?l-/
• Hyphenation: mul?ti?tude

Noun

multitude (plural multitudes)

1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.

   Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

   Synonym: crowd

   Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.

   • Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil

Derived terms

• multitudinous

Translations

References

Further reading

• multitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French multitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl.ti.tyd/

Noun

multitude f (plural multitudes)

1. multitude

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).

Noun

multitude f (oblique plural multitudes, nominative singular multitude, nominative plural multitudes)

1. crowd of people
2. diversity; wide range

Descendants

• English: multitude
• French: multitude

English

Etymology

From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), possibly from Old English p?d (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paid? (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh?- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old Saxon p?da (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic ???????????????????? (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek ????? (baít?, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: pawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

pod (plural pods)

1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

   Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel

2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
4. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

   Synonym: gam

5. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
6. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
7. A nicotine cartridge.
8. A lie-flat business or first class seat.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• like two peas in a pod

Translations

Verb

pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)

1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Translations

Anagrams

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pod

Adverb

pod

1. (focus) also; too
2. (after a negative) either

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pot/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: pode

   Antonym: nad

Further reading

• pod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

pod

1. Superseded spelling of pód.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?pó + *d?h?-o-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (isolated) /p?t/
• Homophone: pot

Preposition

pod

1. (+ instrumental) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes location)

2. (+ accusative) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes movement)
3. (+ accusative) against

4. (+ instrumental) near

Related terms

• pode

Further reading

• pod in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pod in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Noun

pod n (plural poduri)

1. bridge
2. attic

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• mansard?
• punte

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. floor

2. ground

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Alternative forms

• poda (enclitic pronominal form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Preposition

p?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (+ accusative case) under, beneath (with change of position, answering the question kùda)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

2. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (stationary, answering the question gdj?/gd?)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

3. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (being in a particular condition)

4. (+ accusative case) near, toward, in (temporal, with nouns denoting a final temporal segment)

5. (+ instrumental case) during (temporal)

6. (+ accusative case) as, instead of, in lieu of

7. miscellaneous idiomatic meanings

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: podo

   Antonym: nad

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t/

Noun

p?d m inan

1. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: tla

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• spodaj

Volapük

Noun

pod (nominative plural pods)

1. apple

Declension