Etymology

-tide

Today it means: Time, period (especially around an event or festival), season; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it. Full definition →

Middle English -tide ← Old English -tīd
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-tide · suffix1

  1. Old English · inherited from-tīd
  2. Middle English · inherited from-tide
  3. English today-tide

From Middle English -tide, -tyde, from Old English -tīd (in compounds), from tīd (“point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour”); see tide.

-tide · suffix2

From peptide, glycopeptide.

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