ode

ode

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ode"

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊd/

  • Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊd/
• Homophone: owed
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

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

     [title]

   write an ode to someone

Translations

a short poetical composition

Armenian: ներբող (hy) (nerboł), գովերգ (hy) (goverg) Belarusian: о́да f (óda) Bulgarian: о́да (bg) f (óda) Catalan: oda (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 頌詞／颂词 (zh) (sòngcí), 頌詩／颂诗 (zh) (sòngshī), 頌／颂 (zh) (sòng), 頌歌／颂歌 (zh) (sònggē) Czech: óda (cs) f Danish: ode (da) c Dutch: ode (nl) f, lofdicht (nl) n Finnish: oodi (fi) French: ode (fr) f Galician: oda f Georgian: ოდა (oda) German: Ode (de) f Greek: ωδή (el) f (odí) Ancient: ᾠδή f (ōidḗ), ὕμνος m (húmnos) Hebrew: אודה‎ (oda) Hungarian: óda (hu) Italian: ode (it) f Japanese: 頌歌 (ja) (しょうか, shōka), オード (ōdo) Kalmyk: магтал (magtal) Korean: 송시 (songsi), 송가 (songga), 오드 (odeu) Latin: oda Occitan: òda (oc) f Polish: oda (pl) f Portuguese: ode (pt) f Romanian: odă (ro) Russian: о́да (ru) f (óda) Spanish: oda (es) f Swedish: ode (sv) Tagalog: oda Ukrainian: о́да f (óda) Yiddish: אָדע‎ f (ode)

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːðə/, [ˈoːðə]

Noun

ode c (singular definite oden, plural indefinite oder)

1. ode

Inflection

Declension of ode

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ode	oden	oder	oderne
genitive	odes	odens	oders	odernes

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.də/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ode
• Rhymes: -oːdə

Noun

ode f (plural odes or oden)

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

   Synonyms: eerdicht, lofdicht

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ode

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French

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Descendants

• → Dutch: ode

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ode f (plural odi)

1. ode

Verb

ode

1. third-person singular present indicative of udire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Deo, Edo

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Middle English

Adjective

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Noun

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

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Polish

Alternative forms

• od

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈdɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdɛ
• Syllabification: o‧de

Preposition

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.

Usage notes

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

Further reading

• ode in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ode in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.d(ɨ)/ [ˈɔ.ð(ɨ)]

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

ode n

1. an ode

Declension

Declension of ode
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ode	odet	oden	odena
Genitive	odes	odets	odens	odenas

References

• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ode in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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Volapük

Pronoun

ode

1. dative singular of od

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Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ò.dē/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• ojúde (“outside surrounding”)
• Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde
• jáde (“to leave”)
• kéde (“to announce public'ly”)
• òde ayé (“world”)