Ides Definition

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noun
In the ancient Roman calendar, the 15th day of March, May, July, or October, or the 13th of the other months.
Webster's New World

In the Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Eight days after the nones.

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Plural form of ide.

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Plural form of idée.
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Origin of Ides

  • From Old French ides, from Latin idus, possibly from Latin iduare (“to divide”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin Īdūs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • from ide a fish

    From Wiktionary

Ides Sentence Examples

  • After fresh trouble with the clergy, he returned to Paris and published a defence of his theories in a work entitled Ides sur la politique de Platon et d'Aristole.

  • Ides, counting inclusively.

  • Instead of distinguishing the days by the ordinal numbers first,, second, third, &c., the Romans counted backwards from three fixed epochs, namely, the Calends, the Nones and the Ides.

  • Special sacrifices were offered on the kalends, nones, and ides of every month, and on the occasion of important family events.

  • In the months of March, May, July and October, the Ides fell on the 5th day, and the Nones consequently on the 7th; so that each of these months had six days named from the Nones.

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Words Starting With I and Ending With S

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