Etymology 1
From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.
Noun
aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
- (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
He came to my aid when I was foundering.
1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (countable) A helper; an assistant.
- (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:The human is so poorly designed for aquatic adventures that he cannot even see in the water without artificial aids.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone […]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.
- (countable, British) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle, page 71:In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims.
- (countable, British) An exchequer loan.
- (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- (countable) Alternative form of aide (“an aide-de-camp”)
- Robert Michael Wills, They Came from the Drain (page 206)
- Suddenly, the general's aid entered the room and walked in a straight line, coming to a halt in front of the desk, standing at attention, waiting for the general to recognize him, allowing the aid to speak.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural, horse racing) The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.
Translations
help; succor; assistance; relief
- Albania: ndihmë (sq) f
- Arabic: مُسَاعَدَة f (musāʕada)
- Armenian: օգնություն (hy) (ōgnutʻyun)
- Belarusian: дапамо́га f (dapamóha)
- Bulgarian: по́мощ (bg) f (pómošt)
- Czech: pomoc (cs) f
- Danish: hjælp (da), bistand
- Dutch: hulp (nl), bijstand (nl)
- Esperanto: helpo (eo),helpilo
- Finnish: apu (fi)
- French: aide (fr) f
- Galician: axuda (gl) f
- German: Hilfe (de) f
- Greek: αρωγή (el) f (arogí)
- Ancient: βοήθεια f (boḗtheia), ἀρωγή f (arōgḗ)
- Hebrew: סיוע m (si'ua), עֶזְרָה (he) f (ʿezrá)
- Hindi: मदद (hi) f (madad), सहायता (hi) f (sahāytā)
- Irish: cabhair f, cuidiú m, cúnamh m
- Italian: aiuto (it) m
- Japanese: 助け (ja) (tasuke), 支援 (ja) (shien), 援助 (ja) (enjo)
- Latin: auxilium n, adiutorium n
- Macedonian: помош (mk) f (pomoš)
- Malay: pertolongan
- Middle English: aide
- Mòcheno: hilf f
- Mongolian: тусламж (mn) (tuslamž)
- Ottoman Turkish: یاردم (yardım), امداد (imdad)
- Plautdietsch: Help f
- Polish: pomoc (pl) f
- Portuguese: ajuda (pt) f, auxílio (pt) m, socorro (pt) m
- Romanian: ajutor (ro) n
- Russian: по́мощь (ru) f (pómoščʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏мо̄ћ f
- Roman: pȍmōć f
- Sicilian: aiutu (scn) m, ajutu (scn) m
- Slovak: pomoc f
- Slovene: pomọ̑č (sl) f
- Spanish: ayuda (es) f, auxilio (es) m
- Tagalog: ayuda
- Telugu: సహాయము (te) (sahāyamu)
- Tocharian B: pānto, upacai
- Turkish: yardım (tr), medet (tr)
- Ukrainian: допомо́га (uk) f (dopomóha), по́міч f (pómič)
- Walloon: aidance (wa) f
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: tavang
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something which helps; a material source of help
subsidy granted to the crown by parliament
Etymology 2
From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb).
Verb
aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)
- (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
- (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
1979, American Alpine Journal, page 193:Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
Synonyms
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Translations
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- Armenian: օգնել (hy) (ōgnel)
- Belarusian: памага́ць impf (pamahácʹ), памагчы́ pf (pamahčý)
- Bulgarian: помагам (bg) (pomagam), подпомагам (bg) (podpomagam)
- Czech: pomáhat (cs), asistovat (cs), napomáhat
- Danish: hjælpe (da), bistå (da)
- Dutch: helpen (nl), bijstaan (nl)
- Finnish: auttaa (fi)
- French: aider (fr)
- Friulian: judâ
- Galician: axudar (gl), acorrer (gl)
- German: helfen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: βοηθέω (boēthéō)
- Italian: aiutare (it)
- Japanese: 補助する (ja) (ほじょする, hojo suru); 援助する (ja) (えんじょする, enjo suru)
- Latin: iuvō, adiuvō (la), auxilior
- Middle English: recoveren
- Nahuatl: macoa (nah)
- Polish: pomagać (pl)
- Portuguese: ajudar (pt), auxiliar (pt)
- Romanian: ajuta (ro)
- Russian: помога́ть (ru) (pomogátʹ)
- Spanish: ayudar (es)
- Swedish: bistå (sv)
- Ukrainian: допомога́ти (dopomoháty), підтри́мувати (pidtrýmuvaty)
- Welsh: cymorthwyo
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Anagrams
- I'da, Dia, Ida., IAD, Adi, dia-, -iad, I'd-a, Dai, DIA, DAI, dai, IDA, Ida
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯d/
- Rhymes: -ɑi̯d
- Hyphenation: aid
Noun
aid
- fence
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- M. Pahomov (2022) Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 13
Noun
aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)
- garden
Inflection
More information singular, plural ...
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singular |
plural |
| nominative |
aid |
aiaq |
| accusative |
aia |
aiaq |
| genitive |
aia |
aido |
| partitive |
aida |
aido |
| illative |
aida |
aido
aidohe |
| inessive |
aian
aiahn |
aion
aiohn |
| elative |
aiast |
aiost |
| allative |
aialõ |
aiolõ |
| adessive |
aial |
aiol |
| ablative |
aialt |
aiolt |
| translative |
aias |
aios |
| terminative |
aianiq |
aioniq |
| abessive |
aialdaq |
aioldaq |
| comitative |
aiagaq |
aidogaq |
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