aider
English
Etymology
aid + -er
Noun
aider (plural aiders)
- A person who aids or assists.
- 1548, Edward Hall, Hall’s Chronicle, London: Richard Grafton, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere,”
- The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
- 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Richard Field, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 254,
- […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
- 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, OCLC 1057107260, page 73:
- […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed […] to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation,
- 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Uncalled, New York: Dodd, Mead, Chapter 3, p. 23,
- The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
- 1548, Edward Hall, Hall’s Chronicle, London: Richard Grafton, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere,”
- (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
- As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.
Usage notes
Often used in the phrase aider and abettor; see also aid and abet.
Derived terms
- first-aider
Related terms
- aide
Anagrams
- Dirae, adire, aired, deair, idear, irade, redia
French
Etymology
From Middle French ayder, from Old French aidier, from Latin adiutāre, present active infinitive of adiūtō (“help, assist”). Cognate with Spanish ayudar, Romanian ajuta, Italian aiutare, Portuguese and Catalan ajudar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ.de/, /e.de/
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Verb
aider
- to help; to aid
Conjugation
Conjugation of aider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aider | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | aidant /ɛ.dɑ̃/ or /e.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | aidé /ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | aide /ɛd/ | aides /ɛd/ | aide /ɛd/ | aidons /ɛ.dɔ̃/ or /e.dɔ̃/ | aidez /ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ | aident /ɛd/ |
| imperfect | aidais /ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ | aidais /ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ | aidait /ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ | aidions /ɛ.djɔ̃/ or /e.djɔ̃/ | aidiez /ɛ.dje/ or /e.dje/ | aidaient /ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | aidai /ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ | aidas /ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ | aida /ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ | aidâmes /ɛ.dam/ or /e.dam/ | aidâtes /ɛ.dat/ or /e.dat/ | aidèrent /ɛ.dɛʁ/ or /e.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | aiderai /ɛ.dʁe/ or /e.dʁe/ | aideras /ɛ.dʁa/ or /e.dʁa/ | aidera /ɛ.dʁa/ or /e.dʁa/ | aiderons /ɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /e.dʁɔ̃/ | aiderez /ɛ.dʁe/ or /e.dʁe/ | aideront /ɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /e.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aiderais /ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ | aiderais /ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ | aiderait /ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ | aiderions /ɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | aideriez /ɛ.də.ʁje/ or /e.də.ʁje/ | aideraient /ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | aide /ɛd/ | aides /ɛd/ | aide /ɛd/ | aidions /ɛ.djɔ̃/ or /e.djɔ̃/ | aidiez /ɛ.dje/ or /e.dje/ | aident /ɛd/ |
| imperfect2 | aidasse /ɛ.das/ or /e.das/ | aidasses /ɛ.das/ or /e.das/ | aidât /ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ | aidassions /ɛ.da.sjɔ̃/ or /e.da.sjɔ̃/ | aidassiez /ɛ.da.sje/ or /e.da.sje/ | aidassent /ɛ.das/ or /e.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | aide /ɛd/ | — | aidons /ɛ.dɔ̃/ or /e.dɔ̃/ | aidez /ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera
- emploi aidé
Related terms
- aide
Descendants
- Saint Dominican Creole French: hinder
- → English: mayday (from (venez) m'aider!)
Further reading
- “aider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- aride
- raide