English Explanatory Dictionary

Lide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/laɪd/

Word forms

Lide Leede Lides

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave.

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