aide

Alternative forms

• aid

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: aid
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

aide (plural aides)

1. An assistant.
   • 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.

   • 2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times‎:

     Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]

2. (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

Anagrams

• Adie, daie, idea

Noun

aide

1. father

Verb

aide

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛd/

  • Audio (Lyon):

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /aɛd/

  • Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.

Etymology 2

From aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adiūtat.

Further reading

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

Alternative forms

• ayde, eyde, eide, eayde

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæi̯d(ə)/

Noun

aide (uncountable)

1. Help given; aid.
2. A tax levied for defence.
3. (rare) One who assists.

Alternative forms

• (very early) adiudha, aiudha
• (early) aiue, aie

Etymology

From aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈai̯də/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈɛdə/

Noun

aide oblique singular, f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)

1. help; assistance; aid

Interjection

aide

1. Alternative form of haide

Noun

aide f

1. genitive singular of ad