bide

See also: bidé, bidè, bidê, bidę, bídě, and Bide

English

WOTD – 15 September 2008

Etymology

From Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan (“to stay, continue, live, remain, delay; wait for, await, expect; endure, experience, find; attain, obtain; own”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to wait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti, from *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, persuade, compel, trust”). Latinate cognates (via PIE) include faith and fidelity.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots bide (“to dwell, to live; to stay”), Alemannic German beite (“to wait”), Cimbrian paiten (“to wait”), Dutch beiden (“to wait”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bie (“to stay, to wait”), Faroese and Icelandic bíða (“to wait”), Norwegian Nynorsk bide, bie (“to wait”), Swedish bida (“to await, to bide”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (beidan, “to wait”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /baɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Homophone: buyed

Verb

bide (third-person singular simple present bides, present participle biding, simple past bode or bided, past participle bided or bidden)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
   • c. 1570, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:

     And doubting naught right courteous all, in your accustomed wont: And gentle ears, our author he is prest to bide the brunt

2. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? / Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, / Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.

3. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

   • 1896, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “The Adventure of the Garden”, in The Grey Man, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 101:

     But Sir Thomas Kennedy bode little about his house in Maybole, chiefly because his lads and lasses loved most to remain at Culzean, where the cliffs are and the sea spreads wide, clattering pleasantly on the rocks, and with the birds blithely swirling and diving about it all the year round.

   • 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 254:

     John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.

4. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 168:

     And thither wending there that night they bode.

   • 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 252:

     "Bide here," he says, "and birl the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me."

   • 1913, Fred E. Weatherly, Danny Boy:

     It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.

5. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.

Usage notes

• The verb has been replaced by abide in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression bide one's time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bide.

Synonyms

• (to bear): put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to dwell or reside in a location): live; See also Thesaurus:reside
• (to wait): stand by; See also Thesaurus:wait
• (to wait for): await; See also Thesaurus:wait for

Derived terms

• abide
• bide one's time
• bide tryst
• overbide
• unbidable

Related terms

• bid
• faith
• fidelity

Translations

(intransitive) (archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain

• Bulgarian: ча́кам (bg) (čákam), изча́квам (bg) (izčákvam), оста́вам (bg) (ostávam)
• Czech: čekat (cs) impf, vyčkávat impf
• Finnish: vartoa (fi)
• Korean: 때를 기다리다 (ttaereul gidarida)
• Russian: ждать (ru) (ždatʹ), ожида́ть (ru) (ožidátʹ)
• Swedish: bida (sv)

To dwell or reside

• Czech: prodlévat impf, dlít impf

Anagrams

• Bedi, EBID, dieb

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bide/ [bi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide, -e
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Etymology 1

Noun

bide inan

1. path, track, way
2. way, manner, method, procedure
3. journey
4. line

Declension

Declension of bide (inan V-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	bide	bidea	bideak	bideok
ergative	bidek	bideak	bideek	bideok
dative	bideri	bideari	bideei	bideoi
genitive	bideren	bidearen	bideen	bideon
comitative	biderekin	bidearekin	bideekin	bideokin
causative	biderengatik	bidearengatik	bideengatik	bideongatik
benefactive	biderentzat	bidearentzat	bideentzat	bideontzat
instrumental	bidez	bideaz	bideez	bideotaz
inessive	bidetan	bidean	bideetan	bideotan
locative	bidetako	bideko	bideetako	bideotako
allative	bidetara	bidera	bideetara	bideotara
terminative	bidetaraino	bideraino	bideetaraino	bideotaraino
directive	bidetarantz	biderantz	bideetarantz	bideotarantz
destinative	bidetarako	biderako	bideetarako	bideotarako
ablative	bidetatik	bidetik	bideetatik	bideotatik
partitive	biderik	—	—	—
prolative	bidetzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

• bidea galdu
• bideari lotu
• bide eman
• labur bide
• trenbide

Etymology 2

Particle

bide

1. apparently, seemingly

   Galdu bide gara. ― It seems like we're lost.

Further reading

• “bide”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “bide”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidet.

Noun

bide m (plural bides)

1. bidet

Mutation

Mutation of bide

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
bide	vide	unchanged	pide	fide, vide*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• “bide” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish bitæ, from Old Norse bíta, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną, cognate with English bite, German bissen, Dutch bijten. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), cf. Latin findō (“to cleave”), fissiō (“breaking up”) (hence fission).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥iːðə]
• Rhymes: -iːdə

Verb

bide (imperative bid, infinitive at bide, present tense bider, past tense bed, perfect tense har bidt)

1. bite (to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bide

active passive present bider bides past bed — infinitive bide bides imperative bid — participle present bidende past bidt (auxiliary verb have) gerund biden

Derived terms

• bid
• bidering
• forbidt
• ihjelbide
• nedbidt
• overbidt

References

• “bide” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bid/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bide m (plural bides)

1. fiasco, flop
2. (colloquial) paunch, belly
3. (uncountable) Something fake

Synonyms

• (fiasco): fiasco, flop, four
• (belly): bedaine, brioche, panse
• (something fake): bidon

Derived terms

• faire un bide

Further reading

• “bide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Japanese

Romanization

bide

1. Rōmaji transcription of ビデ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide or bideer, definite plural bidea or bideene)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bíða.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²biː.də/

Verb

bide (present tense bid, past tense beid, supine bide, past participle biden, present participle bidande, imperative bid)

1. (intransitive) to exist

   Synonym: vere til

Etymology 2

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈdeː/

Noun

bide n (definite singular bideet, indefinite plural bide, definite plural bidea)

1. alternative spelling of bidé

References

• “bide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• bidé, bedi, beid

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.de/
• Rhymes: -iː.de

Verb

bīde

1. inflection of bīdan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Scots

Etymology

From Old English bīdan, from Proto-Germanic.

Verb

bide

1. to dwell, to live

   Tae bide somewhaur: to dwell somewhere.

   Tae bide: to dwell.

   Whaur dae ye bide?: where do you live?

2. to stay, to remain

   "Bide and fecht!" (traditional Scots phrase meaning "Stay and fight!")

Derived terms

bydand

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǐdeː/
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Noun

bìdē m inan (Cyrillic spelling бѝде̄)

1. bidet

Declension

Declension of bide

	singular	plural
nominative	bìdē	bidèi
genitive	bidèa	bidéā
dative	bideu	bideima
accusative	bide	bidee
vocative	bideu / bidee	bidei
locative	bideu	bideima
instrumental	bideom	bideima

References

• “bide”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈde/
• Hyphenation: bi‧de

Noun

bide (definite accusative bideyi, plural bideler)

1. bidet, a type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus

Declension

Declension of bide

singular plural nominative bide bideler definite accusative bideyi bideleri dative bideye bidelere locative bidede bidelerde ablative bideden bidelerden genitive bidenin bidelerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular bidem bidelerim 2nd singular biden bidelerin 3rd singular bidesi bideleri 1st plural bidemiz bidelerimiz 2nd plural bideniz bideleriniz 3rd plural bideleri bideleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular bidemi bidelerimi 2nd singular bideni bidelerini 3rd singular bidesini bidelerini 1st plural bidemizi bidelerimizi 2nd plural bidenizi bidelerinizi 3rd plural bidelerini bidelerini dative singular plural 1st singular bideme bidelerime 2nd singular bidene bidelerine 3rd singular bidesine bidelerine 1st plural bidemize bidelerimize 2nd plural bidenize bidelerinize 3rd plural bidelerine bidelerine locative singular plural 1st singular bidemde bidelerimde 2nd singular bidende bidelerinde 3rd singular bidesinde bidelerinde 1st plural bidemizde bidelerimizde 2nd plural bidenizde bidelerinizde 3rd plural bidelerinde bidelerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular bidemden bidelerimden 2nd singular bidenden bidelerinden 3rd singular bidesinden bidelerinden 1st plural bidemizden bidelerimizden 2nd plural bidenizden bidelerinizden 3rd plural bidelerinden bidelerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular bidemin bidelerimin 2nd singular bidenin bidelerinin 3rd singular bidesinin bidelerinin 1st plural bidemizin bidelerimizin 2nd plural bidenizin bidelerinizin 3rd plural bidelerinin bidelerinin Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular bideyim bidelerim 2nd singular bidesin bidelersin 3rd singular bide bidedir bideler bidelerdir 1st plural bideyiz bideleriz 2nd plural bidesiniz bidelersiniz 3rd plural bideler bidelerdir

Further reading

• “bide”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “bide”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bide”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 599
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bide”, in Nişanyan Sözlük