ode

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ode"

English

Etymology 1

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Wikipedia

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]

Derived terms

• odal
• odelet
• odic
• odist
• Pindaric ode

Translations

a short poetical composition

Armenian: ներբող (hy) (nerboġ), գովերգ (hy) (goverg) Belarusian: о́да f (óda) Bulgarian: о́да (bg) f (óda) Catalan: oda (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 頌詞 / 颂词 (zh) (sòngcí), 頌詩 / 颂诗 (zh) (sòngshī), 頌 / 颂 (zh) (sòng), 頌歌 / 颂歌 (zh) (sònggē) Czech: óda (cs) f Danish: ode (da) c Dutch: ode (nl) f, lofdicht (nl) n Finnish: oodi (fi) French: ode (fr) f Galician: oda f Georgian: ოდა (oda) German: Ode (de) f Greek: ωδή (el) f (odí) Ancient: ᾠδή f (ōidḗ), ὕμνος m (húmnos) Hebrew: אודה (oda) Hungarian: óda (hu) Italian: ode (it) f Japanese: 頌歌 (ja) (しょうか, shōka), オード (ōdo) Kalmyk: магтал (magtal) Korean: 송시 (songsi), 송가 (songga), 오드 (odeu) Latin: oda Macedonian: о́да f (óda) Occitan: òda (oc) f Polish: oda (pl) f Portuguese: ode (pt) f Romanian: odă (ro) Russian: о́да (ru) f (óda) Spanish: oda (es) f Swedish: ode (sv) Tagalog: oda Ukrainian: о́да f (óda) Yiddish: אָדע f (ode)

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

ode (plural odes)

1. (slang) An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.

Anagrams

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

Albanian

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

Declension

Declension of ode

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ode	oda	ode	odet
accusative		oden
dative	ode	odes	odeve	odeve
ablative			odesh

Further reading

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

Danish

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

Inflection

Declension of ode

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ode	oden	oder	oderne
genitive	odes	odens	oders	odernes

Dutch

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, no diminutive)

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

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ode

French

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Descendants

• → Dutch: ode
• → Russian: ода (oda)
  • → Georgian: ოდა (oda)

Further reading

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