ode

From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /od/
• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophone: owed (except Scotland)

ode (plural odes)

1. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

   write an ode to someone

   • 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:

     [title]

Shortening.

ode (plural odes)

1. (slang) An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.

• DOE, Doe, EDO, EOD, Edo, OED, deo, doe

Ultimately from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈode/
• Rhymes: -ode
• Hyphenation: ó‧de

ode f (plural ode, definite odja, definite plural odet)

1. (literary) ode: lyric poem or solemn song

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “ode”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• IPA^(key): /oːðə/, [ˈoːðə]

ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)

1. ode

Borrowed from French ode, from Middle French ode, from Late Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.də/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ode
• Rhymes: -oːdə

ode f (plural odes or oden, no diminutive)

1. ode (lyrical poem, usually in praise of something or someone)

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

• Afrikaans: ode

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ɔd/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

• → Dutch: ode
• → Russian: ода (oda)
  • → Georgian: ოდა (oda)

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

From Proto-Gbe *-ɖẽ́.^[1] Cognate with Fon dě vocí, Saxwe Gbe ɛde, Saxwe Gbe ade, Ayizo de, Aja (West Africa) deku. Compare with Yoruba àdín (“palm kernel oil”), Èkìtì Yoruba ùdín (“palm kernel oil”), Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba ùdẹ́n (“palm kernel oil”), Igala ìdí (“palm kernel oil”), Edo údẹ́n (“palm oil ointment”), Igbo ùde (“ointment, palm oil ointment”), Nupe èdín (“palm kernel oil”), Nupe èdĩ, Edo ẹdi (“nut, palm nut”), Urhobo edi, with a much deeper etymology, it is proposed to be derived from a Proto-Niger-Congo root, see Usaghade útén (“oil palm”), Ibibio adan (“oil”), and Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀téndé

• IPA^(key): /ō.dé/

odé (plural odé lɛ́ or odé lẹ́)

1. palm nut

• odétín (“palm tree”)

From Italian ode

ode (odes)

1. ode

From Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɔde
• Hyphenation: ò‧de

ode f (plural odi)

1. ode

ode

1. third-person singular present indicative of udire

• ode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Deo, Edo

• ōda

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.de]

ōdē f (genitive ōdēs); first declension

1. (literature) an ode

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

• “ode”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ode”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ɔtən/

ode

1. alternative form of odenh (“all the time”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 48

ode

1. alternative form of odde

ode

1. alternative form of odde

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔdɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔdɛ/

ode

1. alternative form of od

• od

Variant of od. From Proto-Slavic *otъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éti

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.dɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔdɛ
• Syllabification: o‧de

ode

1. from, since

   I nie wódź nas na pokuszenie, ale nas zbaw ode złego. ― And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Nowadays only used with the pronoun mnie. In other uses obsolete. Contemporary variant – od.

• “ode”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Learned borrowing from Latin ōda.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔd͡ʒi, (Portugal) -ɔdɨ
• Hyphenation: o‧de

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

• “ode”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ode”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Used in Swedish since 1651, cognate with English and French ode, Latin oda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) and the older ἀοιδή (aoidḗ).

ode n

1. an ode

• “ode”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ode”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

ode

1. dative singular of od

• IPA^(key): /ò.dē/

òde

1. outside

   Synonym: ìta

2. town

   Synonym: ìlú

3. public

   wọ́n ké sí gbogbo òde

   They announced to the general public

4. event, public outing
5. market

   Synonym: ọjà