idade

See also: -idade

Estonian

Noun

idade

1. genitive plural of ida

Galician

Alternative forms

• edá

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ydade, from Latin aetās, from syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom + *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈdade/ [iˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: i‧da‧de

Noun

idade f (plural idades)

1. age (part of the duration of a being or thing between its beginning and any given time)
2. specific period of a person's lifetime
3. period, epoch, historical age

Related terms

• antigüidade

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ydade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “ydade”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “idade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “idade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “idade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Further reading

• “idade”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• edade (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ydade, from Latin aetātem, from syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom + *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-. Compare Sicilian itati.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈda.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈda.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈda.dɨ/ [iˈða.ðɨ], /iˈdad/ [iˈðað]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ad͡ʒi, (Portugal) -adɨ
• Hyphenation: i‧da‧de

Noun

idade f (plural idades)

1. age (part of the duration of a being or thing between its beginning and any given time)

Derived terms

• idadismo

Further reading

• “idade” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “idade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Xhosa

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Noun

idade^? class 9 (plural iidade class 10)

1. sister

   Synonym: udade

Inflection

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