different between ode vs tode

English

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ?da, from Ancient Greek ??? (?id?, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?d/
• Homophone: owed
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

ode (plural odes)

1. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
   • 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Translations

Anagrams

• DOE, Doe, EDO, EOD, Edo, OED, deo, doe

Danish

Etymology

From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ??? (?id?, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?ð?/, [?o?ð?]

Noun

ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)

1. ode

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ode, from Middle French ode, from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ??? (?id?, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ode
• Rhymes: -o?d?

Noun

ode f (plural odes or oden)

1. ode (lyrical poem, usually in praise of something or someone)

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ode

French

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ?da.

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ode

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ?da, from Ancient Greek ??? (?id?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.de/

Noun

ode f (plural odi)

1. ode

Etymology 2

Verb

ode

1. third-person singular present indicative of udire

Further reading

• ode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Adjective

ode

1. Alternative form of od

Noun

ode

1. Alternative form of od

Polish

Alternative forms

• od

Etymology

Variant of od. From Proto-Slavic *ot?, from Proto-Indo-European *éti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?/

Preposition

ode

1. from, since

Usage notes

Nowadays only used with the pronoun mnie. In other uses obsolete. Contemporary variant – od.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ?da.

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Swedish

Etymology

Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ??? (?id?) and the older ????? (aoid?).

Noun

ode n

1. an ode

Declension

References

• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Volapük

Pronoun

ode

1. dative singular of od

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Etymology 1

Possibly related to Low German todden (“to drag”).

Noun

tode (plural todes)

1. (US) A sled used for hauling logs.

Etymology 2

Possibly related to Low German todden (“to drag”).

Noun

tode (plural todes)

1. (obsolete) Clipping of tode-boat: a small fishing boat used in the Netherlands.

Anagrams

• dote, toed

Middle English

Alternative forms

• toode, tade, tadde, toade

Etymology

From Old English *t?de, a shortening of t?die, t?di?e, of uncertain origin. Compared to Old Norse and modern Danish tudse (“toad”), but OED rejects this because the zero grade of ai is i, not u. Possibly from a common Proto-Germanic word *tod (“small”), compared to Proto-Germanic *t?drijaz (“small, frail”) (modern English tidbit) or *talt?n? (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”) (modern English toddle), referring to its short steps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??d(?)/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?t??d(?)/

Noun

tode (plural todes or toden)

1. A toad (dry-skinned member of the order Anura)
2. The toad seen as a foul, devilish, and vile animal.
3. (rare, derogatory) A sinner; a nasty or loathsome person.
4. (rare, alchemy) The remnants of an element used in alchemical transmutation.

Descendants

• English: toad
• Scots: tade, taid, taed, ted

References

• “t?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.