-tide

/taɪd/

suffix

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.

OriginMiddle English -tide ← Old English -tīd →
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Meanings

-tide1

suffix
  1. 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.

-tide2

suffix
  1. medicineUsed to form names of peptides and glycopeptides.

Origin

-tide · suffix

  1. Old English-tīd
  2. Middle English-tide
  3. English-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.

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-tide · suffix

From peptide, glycopeptide.

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Cite this entry
APA

-tide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-tide

MLA

“-tide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-tide. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-tide,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-tide.

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