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

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

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.

   write an ode to someone

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

     [title]

Translations

a short poetical composition

• Armenian: ներբող (hy) (nerboġ), 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
• Macedonian: о́да f (óda)
• 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

Albanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of ode

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ode	oda	ode	odet
accusative		oden
dative	ode	odes	odeve	odeve
ablative			odesh

Further reading

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

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

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:

  (file)

• 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

French

Etymology

From Middle French ode, from Latin ōda.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Gun

Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *-ɖẽ́. Cognate with Fon dě vocí, Saxwe Gbe ɛde, Saxwe Gbe ade, Ayizo de, Adja 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ō.dé/

Noun

odé (plural odé lɛ́ or odé lẹ́)

1. palm nut

Related terms

• odétín (“palm tree”)

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian ode ode

• Singular ode (ia)
• Plural odes

1. plural of ode

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

Etymology 2

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

Middle English

Adjective

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Noun

ode

1. Alternative form of odde

Old Polish

Pronunciation

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

Preposition

ode

1. Alternative form of od

Polish

Alternative forms

• od

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.dɛ/

• 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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

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.dɨ/ [ˈɔ.ðɨ]

• Hyphenation: o‧de

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ode	odes
	definite	odet	odets
plural	indefinite	oden	odens
	definite	odena	odenas

References

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

Volapük

Pronoun

ode

1. dative singular of od

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

• jáde (“to leave”)
• kéde (“to announce publicly”)
• ojúde (“outside surrounding”)
• wọ́de (“to protest publicly”)
• Ìjẹ̀bú-Òde
• òde ayé (“world”)
• òde àríyá (“social gathering”)