did

• (roman numeral): DID, CMXCIX, cmxcix

did

1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing nine hundred and ninety-nine (999).

• Previous: diid (nine hundred and ninety-eight, 998)
• Next: dd (one thousand, 1000)

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

did

1. simple past tense of do
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see [...].

• DDI, idd

did

1. thither, to there, towards that place

• dertil

• hid, der

From Serbo-Croatian did.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

did m

1. grandfather

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

From English.

did

1. (auxiliary) added to the front of a verb, it causes that verb to be in the past tense

• An equivalent effect can be obtained by adding the ending -d to the verb.

From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

did m

1. day

• Middle Welsh: dyd
  • Welsh: dydd

• (Ijekavian): djȅd
• (Ekavian): dȅda, dȅd

From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather