vide

Aphetic form of divide.[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīd, IPA^(key): /vaɪd/,[1]
• Rhymes: -aɪd

vide (third-person singular simple present vides, present participle viding, simple past and past participle vided)

1. (US, black English)[1] divide[1] (separate into parts, cleave asunder)

vide

1. (Parliamentary jargon, imperative) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)[1]

From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).[2][3]

• v., vid. (abbreviations)[2]
• vidê

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vīʹdĭ, vĭʹdā, vēʹdā, IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪdɪ/,[2] /ˈvɪdeɪ/,[2] /ˈviːdeɪ/,[2]

  or as in post-Classical Latin

vide (singular imperative verb; plural videte)

1. See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.[2]
   • 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353:

     (For comments, vide page 151).

Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte.

• Devi, I'd've, dive, vied

From Old Norse vita (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde, originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“see”).

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense ved, past tense vidste, perfect tense har vidst)

1. know (be certain or sure about (something))

From Old Norse víða (“widen”), verbalization of víðr (“wide”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz.

vide (imperative vid, infinitive at vide, present tense vider, past tense videde, perfect tense har videt)

1. widen

See vid.

vide

1. plural and definite singular attributive of vid

vide

1. visually, by sight

• vida (“visual”)
• vidi (“to see”)
• vido (“sight, vision”)

From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, from vacō. Cf. also vocīvus as a variant of vacivus. Compare Occitan voide, Catalan buit, English void, Italian vuoto, also Spanish vacío.

• IPA^(key): /vid/

• audio

  (file)

vide (plural vides)

1. empty
2. blank (page, tape)
3. vacant; unfurnished (apartment)

vide m (plural vides)

1. (empty) space
2. vacuum, void

   L'appel du vide.

   Call of the void.

3. emptiness
4. gap

• vider
• sous vide

vide

1. first-person singular present indicative of vider
2. third-person singular present indicative of vider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of vider
5. second-person singular imperative of vider

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

From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.

vide f (plural vides)

1. grapevine

vide

1. second-person plural imperative of vir

• vinde

vide

1. present of vider
2. imperative of vider

• Rhymes: -ide

vide

1. third-person singular past historic of vedere

• devi, dive, vedi

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwideː/
• (post-Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈvideː/

vidē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of videō

vide

1. definite singular of vid
2. plural of vid

vide

1. definite singular of vid
2. plural of vid

vide

1. Alternative form of vida

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ðɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.di/
• Hyphenation: ví‧de

From Old Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”)

vide f (plural vides)

1. vine, grapevine

• videira

• uva
• vinha

vide

1. (formal, imperative) see; read

From Old Norse víðir, from Proto-Germanic *wīþijō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”). Cognate to Dutch wijde (“willow”).

vide n

1. willow (trees and shrubs in the genus Salix)

vide

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of vid.

vide f pl

1. plural of vida