aide

• aid

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: aid
• Rhymes: -eɪd

aide (plural aides)

1. An assistant.
   • 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.

   • 2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]

2. (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

• Adie, daie, idea

aide

1. father

aide

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar

• IPA^(key): /ɛd/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /aɛd/

  • Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

Inherited from Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.

aide f (plural aides)

1. help, support

   Synonym: secours m

   à l’aide d’un ordinateur

   with the help of a computer

   Votre protection est sa seule aide.

   Your protection is her sole support.

   Il faut une aide financière pour les victimes.

   There must be financial aid for the victims.

2. (sports) assist

aide m or f by sense (plural aides)

1. aide (person)

From aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adiūtat.

aide

1. inflection of aider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present imperative

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

• ayde, eyde, eide, eayde

Borrowed from Old French aide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæi̯d(ə)/

aide (uncountable)

1. Help given; aid.
2. A tax levied for defence.
3. (rare) One who assists.

• aiden
• aydaunt

• English: aid
• Scots: aid

• “aide, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• (very early) adiudha, aiudha
• (early) aiue, aie

From aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈai̯də/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈɛdə/

aide oblique singular, f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)

1. help; assistance; aid

• aidier

• → Middle English: aide, ayde, eyde, eide, eayde
  • English: aid
  • Scots: aid
• Middle French: ayde
  • French: aide
    • → English: aide

aide

1. Alternative form of haide

aide f

1. genitive singular of ad