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[ahydz]
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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
  1. (in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
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Origin of ides

1300–50; Middle English < Old French < Latin īdūs (feminine plural); replacing Middle English idus < Latin

-ides

  1. a Greek plural suffix appearing in scientific names: cantharides.
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Origin of -ides

< Greek, plural of -is, suffix of source or origin. See -id1
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  • A troop of pipe-players to Minerva on the Ides of June, if we win!

    The Lion's Brood

    Duffield Osborne

  • I vow to thee a troop of pipe-players upon the Ides of June.

    The Lion's Brood

    Duffield Osborne

  • The months were divided into three parts, kalends, nones and ides.

  • Raeburn smiled at her ides of felicity—no cares, and plenty of dogs and cats!

    We Two

    Edna Lyall

  • You were in Palmyra from the ides of January to the nones of February, and lived in a tavern.

    Aurelian

    William Ware

British Dictionary definitions for ides

ides

noun
  1. (functioning as singular) (in the Roman calendar) the 15th day in March, May, July, and October and the 13th day of each other monthSee also calends, nones
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Word Origin

C15: from Old French, from Latin īdūs (plural), of uncertain origin
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Word Origin and History for ides

n.

(plural) early 14c., "middle day of a Roman month," from Old French Ides (12c.), from Latin idus (plural), a word perhaps of Etruscan origin. The 15th of March, May, July, and October; the 13th of other months. "Debts and interest were often payable on the ides" [Lewis].

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