Ida

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ida"

English

Etymology 1

Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪdə/
• Rhymes: -aɪdə

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 127:

     "Ida!!!"
     "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
     Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 16:

     That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity

   • 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, I'l Take You There, Fourth Estate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 18:

     "Ida" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "Ida". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "Ida" with "I" - - -

Usage notes

• Fairly common given name in the 19th century, but rare in the English-speaking world today.

Related terms

• Ide

Translations

female given name

Czech: Ida (cs) f Danish: Ida (da) Finnish: Iida (fi) German: Ida (de) Icelandic: Ída (is) f Italian: Ida (it) f Japanese: アイダ (Aida) Korean: 아이다 (Aida) Norwegian: Ida (no) Polish: Ida (pl) f Portuguese: Ida f Russian: И́да (ru) (Ída) Sicilian: Ida f Swedish: Ida (sv)

Etymology 2

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Ida (surname)

Wikipedia

Two possible origins:

• Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, “rice paddy by the well”).
• Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida.

Proper noun

Ida (plural Idas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ida is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Ida is most common among White (51.98%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (40.3%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ida”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 224.

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Mount Ida

Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Proper noun

Ida

1. (Greek mythology) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.

Derived terms

• Ida County
• Ida Grove
• Idean
• Mount Ida

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Slovak Ida.

Proper noun

Ida

1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

Etymology 5

From Sanskrit इडा (iḍā).

Proper noun

Ida

1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Anagrams

• Dia, IAD, Adi, dia-, -iad, Dai, DIA, AID, DAI, dai, aid

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Ida

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪda]

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

Declension

Declension of Ida (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ida	Idy
genitive	Idy	Id
dative	Idě	Idám
accusative	Idu	Idy
vocative	Ido	Idy
locative	Idě	Idách
instrumental	Idou	Idami

Danish

Etymology

From German Ida.

Proper noun

Ida

1. a female given name
   • 1835, Hans Christian Andersen, Den lille Idas blomster [Little Ida's Flowers]:

     "Mine stakkels blomster er ganske døde!" sagte den lille Ida.

     "My poor flowers, you are wither'd!" said little Ida.

Usage notes

• Popular in the 19th century and recently back in fashion.
• H.C. Andersen's Little Ida (see the quotation) was actually named Adelaide Brun.

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 22 062 females with the given name Ida have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.daː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ida

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name

Faroese

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Ida: Iduson
• daughter of Ida: Idudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Ida
accusative	Idu
dative	Idu
genitive	Idu

German

Etymology

Name of early female saints, shortened from compound given names beginning with Germanic element Ida-, Idu-. The meaning is debated, possibly cognate with the Old Norse ið (“work”), or related to the goddess Iðunn. Since its revival in the 19th century also used as a diminutive of Adelaide.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Ida

1. a female given name

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Ida

Wikipedia ^hu

Etymology

Of Germanic origin. See German Ida.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈidɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ida
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Proper noun

Ida

1. a female given name

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ida	Idák
accusative	Idát	Idákat
dative	Idának	Idáknak
instrumental	Idával	Idákkal
causal-final	Idáért	Idákért
translative	Idává	Idákká
terminative	Idáig	Idákig
essive-formal	Idaként	Idákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Idában	Idákban
superessive	Idán	Idákon
adessive	Idánál	Idáknál
illative	Idába	Idákba
sublative	Idára	Idákra
allative	Idához	Idákhoz
elative	Idából	Idákból
delative	Idáról	Idákról
ablative	Idától	Idáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	Idáé	Idáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	Idáéi	Idákéi

Possessive forms of Ida

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Idám	Idáim
2nd person sing.	Idád	Idáid
3rd person sing.	Idája	Idái
1st person plural	Idánk	Idáink
2nd person plural	Idátok	Idáitok
3rd person plural	Idájuk	Idáik

Igala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /í.dá/

Proper noun

Ídá

1. Idah (a city in Nigeria), the capital city of the Ígáláà people
2. (historical) the capital of the Igala Kingdom

Descendants

• English: Idah

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/
• Rhymes: -ida
• Hyphenation: Ì‧da

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

Anagrams

• adì, dai, dia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Īdē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.da]

Proper noun

Īda f sg (genitive Īdae); first declension

1. A mountain of Crete, where Jupiter was hidden by his mother
2. A mountain situated near Troy

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Īda
genitive	Īdae
dative	Īdae
accusative	Īdam
ablative	Īdā
vocative	Īda

Related terms

• Īdaeus

Descendants

• English: Ida
• French: Ida, (archaic) Ide

References

• “Ida”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ida”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ida”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norwegian

Etymology

From German Ida. First recorded in Norway in 1660, but not in general use before the 19th century.

Proper noun

Ida

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Popular in the 19th century and once again today. The most common name of girls born in Norway in the 1990s.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 273 females with the given name Ida living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1990. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From the same source as now obsolete Dutch ijd (“diligence”), likely related to Icelandic iða (“to move restlessly”), Icelandic ið (“fidgeting”), Iða (“female given name”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *idōną. Compare also (masculine) Old English Ida and Modern English Ida.

Proper noun

Īda f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ida
   • 9th century CE, Evangeliarium van Munsterbilzen [Evangelistary of Munsterbilzen];

     [...] Engelbirga / Īda / Beātrīx [...]
     T[h]esi samanunga was edele unde scōna.

     [...] Engilberga, Ida, Beatrice [...]
     This community was noble and fair.

Declension

Declension of Īda (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun - no plural)

case	singular
nominative	Īda
accusative	Īda, Īdon
genitive	Īdon
dative	Īdon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: Ide, Ida, Yde
  • Dutch: Ida, Ide

Further reading

• Maurits Gysseling (1982), “Noordwesteuropese persoonsnaambestanddelen”, in Naamkunde. Jaargang 14‎ (in Dutch), page 95
• “Trois documents sur Wittem”, in Publications de la Société Historique et Archéologique dans le duché de Limbourg. Deel 5‎ (in French), 1868, page 454

Old English

Proper noun

Ida m

1. a male given name
2. Ida of Bernicia
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCXXXI Hēr wæs Ōsrīc ofsleġen, Norðanhymbra cyning, ⁊ feng Ċēolwulf to þām rīċe ⁊ heold VIII ġēr. ⁊ sē Ċēolwulf wæs Cūþing, Cūþa Cūðwining, Cūðwine Lēodwalding, Lēodwald Eċġwalding, Eċġwald Ealdhelming, Ealdhelm Ocing, Ocea Iding, Ida Eopping. ⁊ Brihtwald arċebisċeop ġefōr ⁊ and þȳ ilcan ġēare wæs Tatwine ġehālgod tō arċebisċeope.

     Year 731 In this year Osric, king of the Northumbrians, was slain, and Ceolwulf ascended to the throne and held it for eight years. Ceolwulf was son of Cutha, Cutha son of Cuthwine, Cuthwine son of Leodwald, Leodwald son of Edgewald, Edgewald son of Ealdhelm, Ealdhelm son of Ocea, Ocea son of Ida, [and] Ida son of Eoppa. And in the same year Archbishop Brightwald died and Tatwine was ordained as archbishop.

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	Ida	—
accusative	Idan	—
genitive	Idan	—
dative	Idan	—

Derived terms

• Iding

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Ida

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ida
• Syllabification: I‧da
• Homophone: -ida

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Ida.

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name from German, equivalent to English Ida

Declension

Declension of Ida

	singular	plural
nominative	Ida	Idy
genitive	Idy	Id
dative	Idzie	Idom
accusative	Idę	Idy
instrumental	Idą	Idami
locative	Idzie	Idach
vocative	Ido	Idy

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Proper noun

Ida f

1. (Greek mythology) Ida, Ide (one of the nurses of the infant Zeus on Crete)

Declension

Declension of Ida

	singular
nominative	Ida
genitive	Idy
dative	Idzie
accusative	Idę
instrumental	Idą
locative	Idzie
vocative	Ido

Further reading

• Ida in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Ida in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dɐ/ [ˈi.ðɐ]

• Homophone: ida

Proper noun

Ida f

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Ida

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈida]

Proper noun

Ida f (genitive singular Idy, nominative plural Idy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Ida

	singular	plural
nominative	Ida	Idy
genitive	Idy	Íd
dative	Ide	Idám
accusative	Idu	Idy
locative	Ide	Idách
instrumental	Idou	Idami

Further reading

• “Ida”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

Etymology

From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ida c (genitive Idas)

1. a female given name

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 48 005 females with the given name Ida living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.