tide

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
2. A stream, current or flood.
3. (obsolete) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical feast.
4. A time.
5. A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
6. The period of twelve hours.
7. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
8. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
9. (obsolete) Violent confluence

Verb

1. To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
2. To pour a tide or flood.
3. To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Verb

To happen, occur.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/taɪd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Middle English tyde, tide, tyd, tid, from Old English tīd (“time”), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to time.
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide”), North Frisian tid (“time”), West Frisian tiid (“time, while”), Dutch tijd (“time”), Dutch tij, getij (“tide of the sea”), Afrikaans tyd (“time”), Low German Tied, Tiet (“time”), Low German Tide (“tide of the sea”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish tid (“time”), Swedish tid (“time”), Icelandic tíð (“time”), Albanian ditë (“day”), Old Armenian տի (ti, “age”), Northern Kurdish dem (“time”).