ides

[ ahydz ]

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noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)

(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.

-ides

ides

/ aɪdz /

functioning as singular (in the Roman calendar) the 15th day in March, May, July, and October and the 13th day of each other month See also calends nones

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Origin of ides¹

1300–50; Middle English < Old French < Latin īdūs (feminine plural); replacing Middle English idus < Latin

Origin of ides²

< Greek, plural of -is, suffix of source or origin. See -id ¹

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Origin of ides¹

C15: from Old French, from Latin īdūs (plural), of uncertain origin

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Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar was famously stabbed to death at the Curia of Pompey on the ides of March in 44 BCE.

A soothsayer warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March—a catastrophe looming in the middle of the month.

They co-wrote and co-produced Good Night, and Good Luck and The Ides of March.

We were in the middle of shooting The Ides of March at the time, but I thought Monuments Men could make a great film.

It follows her recent string of confident, adult performances: Mildred Pierce, True Blood, The Ides of March.

In his next movie, The Ides of March , Clooney plays a flawed presidential candidate.

The next of which was Le bon-sens, ou ides naturelles opposes aux ides surnaturelles.

A troop of pipe-players to Minerva on the Ides of June, if we win!

I vow to thee a troop of pipe-players upon the Ides of June.

With the advent of the fateful Ides of March, winter ii had practically set in, and work outside had a chequered career.

Laurence to his sweetest son, Severus, borne away by angels on the seventh Ides of January.

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