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Webster 1913 Edition

Ides

Ides

(īdz)
,
Noun.
pl.
[L.
idus
: cf. F.
ides
.]
(Anc. Rom. Calendar)
The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
The
ides
of March remember.
Shakespeare
☞ Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the ides.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ides

IDES

,
Noun.
plu.
[L. idus.] In the ancient Roman calendar, eight days in each month; the first day of which fell on the 13th of January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and on the 15th of March, May, July,and October. The ides came between the calends and the nones, and were reckoned backwards. This method of reckoning is still retained in the chancery of Rome,and in the calendar of the breviary.

Definition 2024

idés

idés

See also: ides and IDEs

Swedish

Noun

idés

  1. indefinite genitive singular of idé

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