ode

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /od/
• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophone: owed (except Scotland)

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.

   write an ode to someone

   • 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:

     [title]

Anagrams

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

Etymology

Ultimately from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈode/
• Rhymes: -ode
• Hyphenation: ó‧de

Noun

ode f (plural ode, definite odja, definite plural odet)

1. (literary) ode: lyric poem or solemn song

Further reading

• “ode”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
• “ode”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Etymology

From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːðə/, [ˈoːðə]

Noun

ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)

1. ode

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.də/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ode
• Rhymes: -oːdə

Noun

ode f (plural odes or oden)

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

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Further reading

• “ode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *-ɖẽ́. Cognate with Fon dě vocí, Saxwe Gbe ɛde, Saxwe Gbe ade, Ayizo de, Adja deku. Compare with Yoruba àdín (“palm kernel oil”), Èkìtì Yoruba ùdín (“palm kernel oil”), Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba ùdẹ́n (“palm kernel oil”), Igala ìdí (“palm kernel oil”), Edo údẹ́n (“palm oil ointment”), Igbo ùde (“ointment, palm oil ointment”), Nupe èdín (“palm kernel oil”), Nupe èdĩ, Edo ẹdi (“nut, palm nut”), Urhobo edi, with a much deeper etymology, it is proposed to be derived from a Proto-Niger-Congo root, see Usaghade útén (“oil palm”), Ibibio adan (“oil”), and Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀téndé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ō.dé/

Noun

odé (plural odé lɛ́ or odé lẹ́)

1. palm nut

Etymology

From Italian ode ode

• Singular ode (ia)
• Plural odes

1. plural of ode

Etymology 1

From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

Etymology 2

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Deo, Edo

Adjective

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Noun

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔdɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔdɛ/

Preposition

ode

1. Alternative form of od

Alternative forms

• od

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.dɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdɛ
• Syllabification: o‧de

Preposition

ode

1. from, since

   I nie wódź nas na pokuszenie, ale nas zbaw ode złego. ― And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Further reading

• ode in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧de

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Etymology

Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) and the older ἀοιδή (aoidḗ).

Noun

ode n

1. an ode

References

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

Pronoun

ode

1. dative singular of od

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ò.dē/

Noun

òde

1. outside

   Synonym: ìta

2. town

   Synonym: ìlú

3. public

   wọ́n ké sí gbogbo òde

   They announced to the general public

4. event, public outing
5. market

   Synonym: ọjà