ode

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ode"

English

Etymology 1

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]

Derived terms

• odal
• odelet
• odic
• odist
• Pindaric ode

Related terms

• odeon, odeum

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 Greek: 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)

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

ode (plural odes)

1. (slang) An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.

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

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “ode”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (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, no diminutive)

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, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔd/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode (lyrical poem)

Related terms

• odée
• odéon

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, Aja (West Africa) 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

Noun

ode (odes)

1. 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

Latin

Alternative forms

• ōda

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *awéidō

Proto-Hellenic *-ā́

Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)

Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)bor.

Latin ōdē

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.de]

Noun

ōdē f (genitive ōdēs); first declension

1. (literature) an ode

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

	singular	plural
nominative	ōdē	ōdae
genitive	ōdēs	ōdārum
dative	ōdae	ōdīs
accusative	ōdēn	ōdās
ablative	ōdē	ōdīs
vocative	ōdē	ōdae

Descendants

• → Catalan: oda
• → Galician: oda
• → Italian: ode
• → Middle French: ode
  • French: ode
    • → Dutch: ode
      • Afrikaans: ode
    • → Romanian: odă
    • → Russian: ода (oda)
      • → Georgian: ოდა (oda)
  • → English: ode
    • → Japanese: オード
• → Occitan: òda
• → Polish: oda
• → Portuguese: ode
• → Spanish: oda
  • → Tagalog: oda

References

• “ode”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ode”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lower Tanana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔtən/

Adverb

ode

1. alternative form of odenh (“all the time”)

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 48

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^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *awéidō

Proto-Hellenic *-ā́

Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)

Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)bor.

Latin ōdalbor.

Portuguese ode

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]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔd͡ʒi, (Portugal) -ɔdɨ
• Hyphenation: o‧de

Noun

ode f (plural odes)

1. ode

Further reading

• “ode”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ode”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ode”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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”)