Etymology

-ide

Today it means: Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside. Full definition →

Middle French -ide m ← Latin -idēs
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-ide · suffix1

  1. Latin · derived from-idēs
  2. Middle French · borrowed from-ide m
  3. English today-ide

Borrowed from Middle French -ide m, from Latin -idēs.

-ide · suffix2

  1. Latin · derived from-is
  2. Middle French · borrowed from-ide f
  3. English today-ide

Borrowed from Middle French -ide f, from Latin -is.

-ide · suffix3

  1. Latin · derived from-idus
  2. English today-ide

Generalized in the early 19th c. from oxide (which has its ending from French acide, itself from Latin -idus in acidus), and gradually displaced earlier -uret, both introduced in the English translation of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique.

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