de

• (ISO 639-1): Clipping of German Deutsch
• (radio slang): From French de.

de

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for German.

   Coordinate term: deu

2. (radio slang) from (operator), this is (operator)

Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ).

de (plural des)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.

• dee (Northumberland)

de (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle dein, simple past did, past participle dyun)

1. (Northumbria) Alternative form of dee (“to do”).

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

de

1. (African-American Vernacular, Bermuda, Caribbean, Jamaica) Pronunciation spelling of the.
   • 1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 22:

     “He went to’ds de back, ma’am.” The negro opened the door and slid his legs, clad in army O.D. and a pair of linoleum putties, to the ground. “‘I’ll go git ’im.”’

   • 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-12:

     So I'll prolly say de biggest threat to Bermy is de new selfish mentality like, she ank helpin no one in de end.

de

1. A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

   "Dum de dum, dum de dum", he hummed as he sauntered down the road.

• -ed, -èd, E.D., ED, Ed, Ed., ed, ed-, ed.

Compare Romanian di, employed with horses or oxen for the same purpose.

de

1. Denotes intensity, often after imperatives or some adverbs.

   Fol de! ― Speak!

   Ashtu de! ― This manner! (expressing happiness or satisfaction for the work done)

   Hë të lumtë goja, de! ― May thy mouth be blessed!

2. Spurs a horse to move: giddyup

• “de”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “de”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

• der (preconsonantic & prevocalic)
• der (prevocalic, besides preconsonantic de)
• d'r, dr (Bern)

de

1. (definite) the
   • 1879, Leonhard Steiner, Glärnisch-Fahrt. Gedicht in Zürcher Mundart, p. 10:

     [...] Fründ der Natur [...]

   • 1879, Leonhard Steiner, Glärnisch-Fahrt. Gedicht in Zürcher Mundart, p. 30:

     [...]; der erst und de zweit Stock [...]

   • Dichtungen in Thurgauer Mundart. Gesammelt von O. Sutermeister, published in Zürich by Verlag von Orell Füßli & Co., I. Teil, p. 5:

     [...] so luted der erst Atrag, wo bi der Umfrog vom Pfleger Heieri Guetchnecht vorbrocht würd.

   • Dichtungen in Thurgauer Mundart. Gesammelt von O. Sutermeister, I. Teil, p. 13:

     [...] wo die Flüchtigkeit der Zeit den Ernst des Läbens dem Gemüeti näher bringt.

   • Dichtungen in Thurgauer Mundart. Gesammelt von O. Sutermeister, I. Teil, p. 34:

     [...] i siner Eigeschaft als Fürst der Höll, der [...]

   • Dichtungen in Thurgauer Mundart. Gesammelt von O. Sutermeister, I. Teil, p. 52:

     Was ihr an einem der Ärmsten und Gringste Liebes und Guets tüend,
     Das will ich achte, als heied ihr mir 's tue – so spricht jo der Heiland.

   • Dichtungen in Thurgauer Mundart. Gesammelt von O. Sutermeister, II. Teil, p. 23:

     Mach mit den ander-n acht Moß, wa d'witt; [...]

Zürich:

Thurgau:

From Latin dē.

de

1. of, from

• The preposition de contracts to d' before a word beginning with a vowel or h-: d'Asturies (“of Asturias”), d'hermanu (“of a brother”).

• d'
• del

• IPA^(key): [dè]

de

1. emphatic particle (placed directly after the word it modifies)

   A ma i wele. A ye ne de wele

   He didn't call you. It was me that called

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /de/, [d̪e̞]

de inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

• d' (unstressed form)

Cognate with German German die.

de

1. stressed nominative/accusative singular feminine of der
2. stressed nominative/accusative/dative plural of der

de

1. she, her (accusative)
2. they, them

• se

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈde]

de f (plural des)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

From Latin dē.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [de]

de (before vowel or h d')

1. of, from

• “de” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

de

1. inflection of dar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Spanish de.

de

1. (dated) of, from (only in names with Spanish origins or in phrases with Spanish construct)

   hopia de Cebu

   Cebu's hopia or hopia of/from Cebu

   Isabel biyuda de Cortes

   Isabel widow of Cortes

• del, dela

• IPA^(key): /də/

de (definite, reduced)

1. the
   1. (most dialects) feminine nominative and accusative
   2. (most dialects) plural nominative and accusative
   3. (many dialects) plural dative
   4. (some dialects) masculine nominative
   5. (some dialects) masculine accusative
   6. (few dialects) feminine dative

• (masculine): Three territories must be distinguished: 1.) Ripuarian, in which the accusative takes the form of the nominative; 2.) western Moselle Franconian, in which the nominative takes the form of the accusative; 3.) eastern Moselle Franconian, in which nominative and accusative are distinct.

1.) In Ripuarian, the reduced masculine article in nominative and accusative is de only in a few places, including Bonn; most dialects have der. The full form is always dä.

2.) In western Moselle Franconian, the form is de, but becomes den before vowels, h-, and dental consonants. The full form is dän.

3.) In eastern Moselle Franconian, the reduced masculine article in the nominative is de in many dialects, der in others. The full form is där. The accusative takes den (full form: dän).

• (feminine): Virtually all dialects use de as the reduced feminine article in nominative and accusative. The full form is die. In the dative, de is used in a few dialects of Ripuarian; the general form is der. The full form may be där or dä.
• (plural): Virtually all dialects use de as the reduced plural article in nominative and accusative. The full form is die. In the dative, de is used in most dialects of Ripuarian. In Moselle Franconian the form is the same as the masculine accusative (see above). The full form of the dative plural may be dä, dän, or däne.
• Westernmost Ripuarian has no case distinction whatsoever. Only the nominative forms are relevant for these dialects.

Ripuarian (scientific transcription by Münich with ę [ɛ] and ꝛ ⁠[ʁ⁠]):

Ripuarian → Kölsch (as actually used):

• 1875, Fritz Hönig, „Geschräppels.“ Humoresken. Erster Band, p. 34:

  Ha geiht no noh'm Kobes öm Veetel op Aach,
  Verzällt imm dä ganzen Hergang der Saach.

• em (en dem)

• Grammatik der ripuarisch-fränkischen Mundart von Ferdinand Münch. Verlag von Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1904, p. 138f. & 163f.

• di (Luserna)

de

1. (Sette Comuni) the; definite article for four declensions:
   1. nominative singular feminine
   2. accusative singular feminine
   3. nominative plural

      De diarn zeint bille un de puuben noch mèeront.

      The girls are silly, and the boys even more so.

   4. accusative plural

• “de” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Latin dē.

de

1. of

• dei

From Old Danish thē, from Old Norse þeir, from Proto-Germanic *þai.

• IPA^(key): /di/, [d̥i]
• Rhymes: -i

de pl

1. plural definite article

   de grønne huse

   the green houses

• den (common gender singular)
• det (neuter gender singular)

de (as a personal pronoun, it has the forms dem in the oblique case and deres in the genitive; as a determiner, it is uninflected)

1. (personal pronoun) they (third-person plural)
2. (personal pronoun, nonstandard) they (gender-neutral third-person singular)
3. (determiner) those

   De kager smager ikke godt.

   Those cakes taste not good.

   • 2000, Mon farven har en anden lyd?: strejftog i 90'ernes musikliv og ungdomskultur i Danmark, Museum Tusculanum Press →ISBN, page 90

     De huse er meget store, både som sommerhuse og som helårshuse for de gamle hvis de flytter tilbage som pensionister uden børnene.

     Those houses are very large, both as summerhouses and all-year-houses for the old people, if they move back, being retired, without their children.

   • 2015, Lynne Graham, Claire Baxter, Den lunefulde kærlighed/Min bedste ven, min elskede, Förlaget Harlequin AB →ISBN

     De borde var normalt forbeholdt VIP'erne og arrangørerne.

     Those tables were usually reserved for the VIP's and the arrangers.

An unstressed variety of Middle Dutch die. See die for more information.

• IPA^(key): /də/

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• Hyphenation: de
• Rhymes: -ə

de

1. the (definite article, masculine and feminine singular, plural)

   De man ― The man (masculine singular)

   De vrouw ― The woman (feminine singular)

   Het boek ― The book (neuter singular)

   De boeken ― The books (neuter plural)

   De oude man en de zee. ― The old man and the sea.

• Placed before masculine and feminine nouns in the singular and plural nouns of all genders, indicating a specific person or thing instead of a general case.

• There is also the clitic form 's for des. The oblique cases are archaic and found in contemporary Dutch only in fixed idiomatic phrases (e.g., op den duur or des ochtends).

• Afrikaans: die
• Berbice Creole Dutch: di
• Jersey Dutch: de
• Skepi Creole Dutch: di, de, the

de

1. (informal, in restricted contexts, mostly with "man") per

   Ze namen drie biertjes de man. ― They took three beers per person.

   We betaalden vijftien euro de neus. ― We paid fifteen euros per person.

• dé
• een
• het

• e.d.

From Latin dē, French de, Spanish de.

• IPA^(key): [de]
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• Hyphenation: de

de

1. from

   Mi ne aĉetas ion ajn de ĉi tiu vendejo!

   I don't buy anything at all from this store!

2. of, possessed by

   La aŭto de Davido estas nigra.

   David's car is black.

3. done, written or composed by

   Synonyms: far, fare de

   Ĉu vi havas esperantan tradukon de Drakulo de Bram Stoker?

   Do you have an Esperanto translation of Dracula by Bram Stoker?

   La viro estis mordita de hundo.

   The man was bitten by a dog.

From Old Galician-Portuguese de, from Latin dē (“of; from”).

de

1. of
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     Español falan millós de persoas.

     Millions of people speak Spanish.

• When followed by the articles u/o, a, us/os, as; it contracts to du/do, da, dus/dos, das respectively.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

de n (genitive singular des, plural de)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

From Middle French de, from Old French de, from Latin dē.

• IPA^(key): /də/

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• Rhymes: -ə

de

1. of (expresses belonging)

   Paris est la capitale de la France. ― Paris is the capital of France.

   • 1837, Louis Viardot, chapter I, in L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra:

     Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo ....

     In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo ....

2. of (used to express property or association)

   Œuvres de Fermat ― Fermat’s Works

   Elle est la femme de mon ami. ― She is my friend’s wife.

   le voisin de Gabriel ― Gabriel's neighbor

3. from (used to indicate origin)

   Elle vient de France. ― She comes from France.

   Êtes-vous de Suisse ? ― Are you from Switzerland?

   Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. ― This cheese is from Spain.

   C’est de l’ouest de la France. ― It’s from the west of France.

   Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. ― The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux.

4. of (indicates an amount)

   5 kilos de pommes. ― 5 kilograms of apples.

   Un verre de vin ― A glass of wine

   Une portion de frites ― A portion of fries

5. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word

   Un jus de pomme ― Apple juice

   Un verre de vin ― A glass of wine

   Une boîte de nuit ― A nightclub

   Un chien de garde ― A guarddog

   Une voiture de sport ― A sportscar

   Un stade de football ― A football stadium

6. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)

   De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. ― From 9 to 11 I won’t be free.

   Je travaille de huit heures à midi. ― I work from 8 o'clock to noon.

   un groupe de cinq à huit personnes ― a group of [from] five to eight people

7. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive

   J’ai arrêté de fumer. ― I stopped smoking.

   Il continue de m’embêter. ― He keeps annoying me.

   Elle m’a dit de venir. ― She told me to come.

   Nous vous exhortons de venir. ― We urge you to come.

8. by (indicates the amount of change)

   Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. ― Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%.

Before a word beginning with a vowel sound, de elides to d’. Before the article le, it contracts with the article into du. Before the article les, it contracts with the article into des.

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été’ ― A Midsummer Night’s Dream (literally, “The Dream of a night of summer”)

La queue du chien ― The dog’s tail

Index des auteurs ― Index of the authors

de (indefinite)

1. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.

   Ce sont de bons enfants. ― They are good children.

   Il y a d’autres exemples. ― There are other examples.

2. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.

   Elle n’a pas de mère. ― She doesn’t have a mother.

   Il ne mange pas de viande. ― He doesn’t eat meat.

   Il n’y a pas de problèmes. ― There are no problems.

• In negative sentences, de often replaces the indefinite (un, une and des) and partitive articles (du, de la, des). However, there are situations where the indefinite or partitive articles are retained. For example[1]:
  • when the nominal element is an attributive complement to the negated verb être

    Il n’est pas un menteur. ― He isn't a liar.

  • when the complement of the negated verb is followed by a contradistinctive element (not X, but Y)

    Il ne mange pas de viande. ― He doesn't eat meat.

    Il ne mange pas de la viande, mais du pain. ― He doesn't eat meat, but bread.

• (contractions): d’, du, des

• IPA^(key): /dam/

d^e f (plural d^es)

1. Abbreviation of dame.

• d^lle
• s^r

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

• ed, éd.

From Latin dē.

• IPA^(key): /dɪ/

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de

1. of, from

   Veño de Lugo.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. of; -'s (belonging to)

   Socorro é a avoa de Clara e de Daniel.

   Socorro is Clara and Daniel's grandmother

The preposition de contracts to d- before articles, before third-person tonic pronouns, and before the determiners algún and outro.

• dalgún, dalgunha, dalgunhas, dalgúns

• dun, dunha, dunhas, duns
• doutra, doutras, doutro, doutros

• “de” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From French deux (“two”).

• IPA^(key): /de/

de

1. two

For the adverbial use, compare Polish ale.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛ]

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• Rhymes: -dɛ

de (not comparable)

1. how!, very much

   Synonyms: (dated, poetic) be, milyen, mennyire

   De szép ez a ház! ― Oh, how beautiful that house is!

de

1. but

   Synonyms: viszont, azonban, ám, ugyanakkor, ellenben

2. (oh) yes!, surely! (used as a positive contradiction to a negative statement)

   Synonym: de igen

   Nem voltál itt! – De ott voltam. ― You weren’t here! – Yes I was!

• (adverb): de in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (conjunction): de in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• de in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

• te (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Middle High German der, from Old High German der, ther, replacing the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa, by analogy with the adjective inflection.

• IPA^(key): /tə/

de (definite)

1. inflection of där:
   1. unstressed nominative/accusative singular masculine
   2. unstressed dative singular feminine
   3. unstressed dative plural all genders

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Borrowed from French de and Spanish de.

• IPA^(key): /de/, /dɛ/

de

1. from (indicating departure, dependency, starting point, origin or derivation)

   Me kompris la frukti de la merkato.

   I bought the fruits from the market.

2. of (with a noun: indicating measurement, quantity, amount, content)

   Me esis un de kin en la konkurso.

   I was one of five in the competition.

   Me prizas tre multe tasego de kafeo ye la matino.

   I really like a big cup of coffee in the morning.

3. of (with an adjective: indicating measurement, dimension)

   Me havas tri boteli plena de aquo.

   I have three bottles of water.

4. with a title of nobility

   Rejio de Anglia

   Queen of England

• ad (“to”)
• til (“until, till”)

• de-
• del (“from the”)

• di (“of (indicates possession or association)”)
• da (“by”)

de (plural de-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

• ek (“out of, out from”)

de

1. from
2. since
3. of
4. with
5. by means of
6. to
7. for

From Old Irish di (“of, from”).

• d’ (used before a vowel sound)

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛ/, /dʲə/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ɡə/
• (Ulster, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ə/, (before ⟨a/á, o/ó, u/ú⟩) /ə.ɣ-/, (before ⟨e/é, i/í⟩) /ə.j-/[1]

de (plus dative, triggers lenition, used only before consonant sounds)

1. from
2. of

See also: Category:Irish phrasal verbs with particle (de)

From Old Irish de (“of/from him”).

• dhe, dó, dhó

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /dʲɛh/[2]

de (emphatic desean)

1. third-person singular masculine of de

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “de”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 de, di”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “de” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “de” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

de

1. Apocopic form of del

   Michael Radford è il regista de "Il postino". ― Michael Radford is the director of "Il Postino".

De is used where del, della, etc, would ordinarily be used, but cannot be because the article is part of the title of a film, book, etc.

• ne

• ed, ed.

de

1. Rōmaji transcription of で
2. Rōmaji transcription of デ

From Dutch de (“the”). Cognates include Afrikaans die.

• IPA^(key): /də/

de

1. the
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     De v'lôrene zön

     The prodigal (literally "lost") son

From Latin dē.

de

1. of, from

• dl
• dla
• di
• dles

de (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling די‎)

1. of
   • 2019, Silvyo OVADYA, “Hanukah Alegre”, in Şalom Gazetesi‎:

     Alhad la noche vamos a asender la primera kandela de muestras Hanukiyas.

     Sunday night we're going to light the first candle of our Hanukiyas.

2. from

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *daj (“do, make”). Cognates include Ao da (“do”) and Lahu te (“do”).

• IPA^(key): /deː˧/

de

1. (transitive) to build

• IPA^(key): /de˧/

de

1. wealth

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

From Etruscan. Etruscan names of stops were the stop followed by /eː/[1].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deː/, [d̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de/, [d̪ɛː]

dē f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter D.

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

• de in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• de in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• de in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• de in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    
  • to take root: radices agere (De Off. 2. 12. 73)
    
  • to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
    
  • to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
    
  • make way for any one: (de via) decedere alicui
    
  • weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
    
  • to leave a place: discedere a, de, ex loco aliquo
    
  • to quit a place for ever: decedere loco, de, ex loco
    
  • to throw oneself from the ramparts: se deicere de muro
    
  • to throw some one down the Tarpeian rock: deicere aliquem de saxo Tarpeio
    
  • while it is still night, day: de nocte, de die
    
  • late at night: multa de nocte
    
  • a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
    
  • to pass a thing from hand to hand: de manu in manus or per manus tradere aliquid
    
  • to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid
    
  • to slip, escape from the hands: e (de) manibus effugere, elābi
    
  • the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
    
  • to free one's mind from the influences of the senses: sevocare mentem a sensibus (De Nat. D. 3. 8. 21)
    
  • from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • to dream of a person: somniare de aliquo
    
  • to depart this life: (de) vita decedere or merely decedere
    
  • to depart this life: de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare
    
  • to remove a person: e or de medio tollere
    
  • I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
    
  • for valid reasons: iustis de causis
    
  • to comfort a man in a matter; to condole with him: consolari aliquem de aliqua re
    
  • to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
    
  • to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
    
  • to expostulate with a person about a thing: conqueri, expostulare cum aliquo de aliqua re
    
  • to inform a person: certiorem facere aliquem (alicuius rei or de aliqua re)
    
  • to mention a thing: mentionem facere alicuius rei or de aliqua re
    
  • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentionem inicere de aliqua re or Acc. c. Inf.
    
  • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
    
  • to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • to do work (especially agricultural): opus facere (De Senect. 7. 24)
    
  • to exert oneself very considerably in a matter: desudare et elaborare in aliqua re (De Senect. 11. 38)
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • vague, undeveloped ideas: intellegentiae adumbratae or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59)
    
  • to give up one's opinion: de sententia sua decedere
    
  • to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
    
  • to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri
    
  • to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere
    
  • to judge others by oneself: de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere
    
  • to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • to deliberate together (of a number of people): consilium habere (de aliqua re)
    
  • to deliberate, consider (of individuals): consultare or deliberare (de aliqua re)
    
  • designedly; intentionally: de industria, dedita opera (opp. imprudens)
    
  • from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    
  • to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing: ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)
    
  • to apply oneself very closely to literary, scientific work: in litteris elaborare (De Sen. 8. 26)
    
  • to be a man of great learning: doctrina abundare (De Or. 3. 16. 59)
    
  • abstruse studies: studia, quae in reconditis artibus versantur (De Or. 1. 2. 8)
    
  • to have a thorough grasp of a subject: penitus percipere et comprehendere aliquid (De Or. 1. 23. 108)
    
  • for a Roman he is decidedly well educated: sunt in illo, ut in homine Romano, multae litterae (De Sen. 4. 12)
    
  • to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
    
  • to obtain a result in something: aliquid efficere, consequi in aliqua re (De Or. 1. 33. 152)
    
  • he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • to take a lesson from some one's example: sibi exemplum sumere ex aliquo or exemplum capere de aliquo
    
  • to give advice, directions, about a matter: praecepta dare, tradere de aliqua re
    
  • Cicero's philosophical writings: Ciceronis de philosophia libri
    
  • Solon, one of the seven sages: Solo, unus de septem (illis)
    
  • to teac: tradere (aliquid de aliqua re)
    
  • dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19)
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
    
  • to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
  • the points on which proofs are based; the grounds of proof: loci (τόποι) argumentorum (De Or. 2. 162)
    
  • to discuss, investigate a subject scientifically: disputare (de aliqua re, ad aliquid)
    
  • to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
    
  • to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    
  • the point at issue: id, de quo agitur or id quod cadit in controversiam
    
  • a twofold tradition prevails on this subject: duplex est memoria de aliqua re
    
  • to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)
    
  • to learn to play a stringed instrument: fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)
    
  • the melody: modi (De Or. 1. 42. 187)
    
  • the art of painting: ars pingendi, pictura (De Or. 2. 16. 69)
    
  • the dramatic art: ars ludicra (De Or. 2. 20. 84)
    
  • to retire from the stage: de scaena decedere
    
  • to be fluent: disertum esse (De Or. 1. 21. 94)
    
  • to be a capable, finished speaker: eloquentem esse (De Or. 1. 21. 94)
    
  • flow of oratory: flumen orationis (De Or. 2. 15. 62)
    
  • incorrect language: oratio inquinata (De Opt. Gen. Or. 3. 7)
    
  • flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
    
  • to give an account of a thing (either orally or in writing): exponere aliquid or de aliqua re
    
  • to make a character-sketch of a person: de ingenio moribusque alicuius exponere
    
  • graphic depiction: rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
    
  • to go deeply into a matter, discuss it fully: multum, nimium esse (in aliqua re) (De Or. 2. 4. 17)
    
  • to speak at great length on a subject, discuss very fully: fusius, uberius, copiosius disputare, dicere de aliqua re
    
  • to interpolate, insert something: interponere aliquid (De Am. 1. 3)
    
  • to digress, deviate: digredi (a proposito) (De Or. 2. 77. 311)
    
  • a rather recondite speech: oratio longius repetita (De Or. 3. 24. 91)
    
  • to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    
  • the arrangement of the subject-matter: dispositio rerum (De Inv. 1. 7. 9)
    
  • to set some one a theme for discussion: ponere alicui, de quo disputet
    
  • to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • the question at issue: res, de qua nunc quaerimus, quaeritur
    
  • to answer every question: percontanti non deesse (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • a far-fetched joke: arcessitum dictum (De Or. 2. 63. 256)
    
  • to be silly, without tact: ineptum esse (De Or. 2. 4. 17)
    
  • to be united by having a common language: eiusdem linguae societate coniunctum esse cum aliquo (De Or. 3. 59. 223)
    
  • to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
    
  • a linguist, philologian: grammaticus (De Or. 1. 3. 10)
    
  • to employ carefully chosen expressions: lectissimis verbis uti (De Or. 3. 37)
    
  • to say not a syllable about a person: ne verbum (without unum) quidem de aliquo facere
    
  • to speak on a subject: verba facere (de aliqua re, apud aliquem)
    
  • to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236)
    
  • to compose, compile a book: librum conficere, componere (De Sen. 1. 2)
    
  • there exists a book on..: est liber de...
    
  • the book treats of friendship: hic liber est de amicitia (not agit) or hoc libro agitur de am.
    
  • to lay down a book (vid. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...): librum de manibus ponere
    
  • humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
    
  • I am pained, vexed, sorry: doleo aliquid, aliqua re, de and ex aliqua re
    
  • not to trouble oneself about a thing: non laborare de aliqua re
    
  • to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
    
  • to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de gradu deici, ut dicitur
    
  • what will become of me: quid (de) me fiet? (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)
    
  • it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
    
  • to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
    
  • to fulfil expectation: exspectationem explere (De Or. 1. 47. 205)
    
  • to be touched with pity: misericordia moveri, capi (De Or. 2. 47)
    
  • to have enthusiasm for a person or thing: studio ardere alicuius or alicuius rei (De Or. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem
    
  • to make a thing credible: fidem facere, afferre alicui rei (opp. demere, de-, abrogare fidem)
    
  • to be answerable for a person, a thing: praestare aliquem, aliquid, de aliqua re or Acc. c. Inf.
    
  • to suspect a person: suspicionem habere de aliquo
    
  • to be separated by a deadly hatred: capitali odio dissidere ab aliquo (De Am. 1. 2)
    
  • to vent one's anger, spite on some one: virus acerbitatis suae effundere in aliquem (De Amic. 23. 87)
    
  • his vices betray themselves: vitia erumpunt (in aliquem) (De Amic. 21. 76)
    
  • to give some one satisfaction for an injury: satisfacere alicui pro (de) iniuriis
    
  • apparently; to look at: specie (De Amic. 13. 47)
    
  • to neglect one's duty: de, ab officio decedere
    
  • to follow one's inclinations: studiis suis obsequi (De Or. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute
    
  • to give moral advice, rules of conduct: de virtute praecipere alicui
    
  • by divine inspiration (often = marvellously, excellently): divinitus (De Or. 1. 46. 202)
    
  • to observe the sky (i.e. the flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.: de caelo servare (Att. 4. 3. 3)
    
  • to escort a person from his house: deducere aliquem de domo
    
  • to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household: severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
    
  • to dispossess a person: demovere, deicere aliquem de possessione
    
  • to live on one's means: de suo (opp. alieno) vivere
    
  • a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11)
    
  • to turn the conversation on to a certain subject: sermonem inferre de aliqua re
    
  • the conversation turned on..: sermo incidit de aliqua re
    
  • to converse, talk with a person on a subject: sermonem habere cum aliquo de aliqua re (De Am. 1. 3)
    
  • to exchange greetings: inter se consalutare (De Or. 2. 3. 13)
    
  • to congratulate a person on something: gratulari alicui aliquid or de aliqua re
    
  • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman): nuntium remittere alicui (De Or. 1. 40)
    
  • disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
    
  • to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)
    
  • to transact, settle a matter with some one: transigere aliquid (de aliqua re) cum aliquo or inter se
    
  • to subtract something from the capital: de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid
    
  • to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem ab aliquo reptere de aliqua re (Cluent. 37. 104)
    
  • credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • to have pecuniary difficulties: laborare de pecunia
    
  • as you sow, so will you reap: ut sementem feceris, ita metes (proverb.) (De Or. 2. 65)
    
  • to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)
    
  • to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
    
  • to have the good of the state at heart: omnia de re publica praeclara atque egregia sentire
    
  • the head of the state: rector civitatis (De Or. 1. 48. 211)
    
  • statesmanship; political wisdom: prudentia (civilis) (De Or. 1. 19. 85)
    
  • to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
    
  • one of the people: homo plebeius, de plebe
    
  • one of the crowd; a mere individual: unus de or e multis
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem de dignitatis gradu demovere
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
    
  • deposed from one's high position: de principatu deiectus (B. G. 7. 63)
    
  • to contend with some one for the pre-eminence: contendere cum aliquo de principatu (Nep. Arist. 1)
    
  • to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
  • to have the same political opinions: idem de re publica sentire
    
  • to form a conspiracy: coniurare (inter se) de c. Gerund. or ut...
    
  • to banish a person, send him into exile: de, e civitate aliquem eicere
    
  • to expel a person from the city, country: exterminare (ex) urbe, de civitate aliquem (Mil. 37. 101)
    
  • a returning from exile to one's former privileges: postliminium (De Or. 1. 40. 181)
    
  • to shake hands with voters in canvassing: manus prensare (De Or. 1. 24. 112)
    
  • to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office): de potestate decedere
    
  • men of rank and dignity: viri clari et honorati (De Sen. 7. 22)
    
  • a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
    
  • to offically proclaim (by the praeco, herald) a man elected consul; to return a man consul: aliquem consulem renuntiare (De Or. 2. 64. 260)
    
  • to consult the senators on a matter: patres (senatum) consulere de aliqua re (Sall. Iug. 28)
    
  • the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..: senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16)
    
  • what is your opinion: quid de ea re fieri placet?
    
  • to waive one's right: de iure suo decedere or cedere
    
  • to hold an inquiry into a matter: quaerere aliquid or de aliqua re
    
  • to examine a person, a matter: quaestionem habere de aliquo, de aliqua re or in aliquem
    
  • to have a person tortured: quaerere tormentis de aliquo
    
  • to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
    
  • counsel; advocate: patronus (causae) (De Or. 2. 69)
    
  • to strike a person's name off the list of the accused: eximere de reis aliquem
    
  • to accuse a person of extortion (to recover the sums extorted): postulare aliquem repetundarum or de repetundis
    
  • to accuse some one of illegal canvassing: accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambitu
    
  • to accuse a person of violence, poisoning: accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis
    
  • to decide on the conduct of the case: iudicare causam (de aliqua re)
    
  • to exact a penalty from some one: supplicium sumere de aliquo
    
  • to atone for something by..: luere aliquid aliqua re (De Sen. 20)
    
  • to execute the death-sentence on a person: supplicium sumere de aliquo
    
  • to congratulate a person on his victory: victoriam or de victoria gratulari alicui
    
  • to triumph over some one: triumphare de aliquo (ex bellis)
    
  • to triumph over some one: triumphum agere de or ex aliquo or c. Gen. (victoriae, pugnae)
    
  • to treat with some one about peace: agere cum aliquo de pace
    
  • to stop rowing; to easy: sustinere, inhibere remos (De Or. 1. 33)
    
  • to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
    
  • not to mention..: ut non (nihil) dicam de...
    
  • this can be said of..., applies to..: hoc dici potest de aliqua re
    
  • I have a few words to say on this: mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac re
    
  • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: atque haec quidem de...
    
  • so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
    
  • I am sorry to hear..: male (opp. bene) narras (de)
    
  • but enough: sed manum de tabula!
    
• de in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

From Proto-Italic *dē, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *de. Also in suffixes -dam, -dum, -de, -dō (e.g. quondam, inde, unde, quandō), dōnec, Ancient Greek δέ (dé), δή (dḗ), English to.

All 3 ablative senses are from the PIE ablative of cause, origin, and separation.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deː/, [d̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de/, [d̪ɛː]

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dē (+ ablative)

1. of, concerning, about

   actum est de aliquo ― It is over for someone, the fate of someone is sealed

   • (Can we date this quote?), Finnur Jónsson, Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ‎, page 1:

     De introductione religionis Christianæ in Islandiam.

     Of the introduction of Christianity to Iceland.

   De rebus mathematicis. ― Concerning mathematical things.

2. from, away from, down from, out of; in general to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds.

   Emere de aliquo. ― To buy from someone.

   Aliquid mercari de aliquo. ― To buy something from someone.

   De aliquo quaerere, quid, etc., C ― To search for someone.

   Saepe hoc audivi de patre. ― I have often heard this from father.

   De mausoleo exaudita vox est. ― A voice was heard from the mausoleum.

   Ut sibi liceret discere id de me. ― Just as he himself permitted for me to learn.

   Hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   De digito anulum detraho. ― From the finger I pull the ring.

   De matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “I rip someone away from the embrace of their mother and drag them away.”)

   Nomen suum de tabula sustulit. ― He removed his name from the tablet.

   Ferrum de manibus extorsimus. ― We tore the sword from their hands.

   Juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest. ― The utility of a law is able to be produced either from an expert or from books.

   De caelo aliquid demittere. ― To bring down something from the sky.

   1. with petere, of a place

      De vicino terra petita solo. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   2. (Late Latin) of persons

      Peto de te. ― I beg of thee.

3. from, away from, to indicate the place from which someone or something departs or withdraws.

   Animam de corpore mitto. ― I release the spirit from the body.

   Aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit. ― Somehow the spirit has already passed somewhere from the body.

   Civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent. ― He persuaded the people to go forth from their territories with all their possessions.

   Decedere de provincia. ― To retire from office.

   De vita decedere. ― To withdraw from life

   Exire de vita. ― to exit out of life. (compare excedere e vita)

   De triclinio, de cubiculo exire. ― To go out from the triclinium, from the cubiculum.

   De castris procedere. ― To proceed out of the military camps.

   ...decido de lecto praeceps. ― I fall down from the bed headlong.

   De muro se deicere. ― To throw oneself down from the wall.

   De sella exsilire. ― To jump from the stool.

   Nec ex equo vel de muro etc., hostem destinare. ― To aim at the enemy from neither the horse nor the wall.

   De altera parte tertia Sequanos decedere juberet. ― He ordered the Sequani to withdraw from another third part.

4. (particularly coins) over, in reference to the people subjugated when celebrating a Roman victory

   De Germanis

   Over the Germans

   De Britannis

   Over the Britons

• Dē denotes the going out, departure, removal, or separating of an object from any fixed point (it occupies a middle place between ab (“away from”) which denotes a mere external departure, and ex (“out of”) which signifies from the interior of a thing). Hence verbs compounded with dē are constructed not only with dē, but quite as frequently with ab and ex; and, on the other hand, those compounded with ab and ex often have the terminus a quo indicated by dē.

• IPA^(key): /de/

From Latin dē.

de

1. of
2. from

de + article	Combined form
de + o	do
de + a	da
de + i	di
de + e	de

de (“of, from”, preposition) + e (“the (fem. plur.)”, article)

de

1. of the, from the (followed by a plural feminine noun)

Inherited from French deux (“two”).

• IPA^(key): /dø/
• Rhymes: -ø

de

1. Alternative form of dé (“two”)

• dee (for the pronoun)
• dei
• de, dé (´ denoting a raising of the voice), dè (` denoting a swallow up or shorting) (all three used together; Grafschaft Bentheim)

From Middle Low German dê, from Old Saxon thē.

• IPA^(key): /deː/, /deɪ/, /dɛɪ̯/

de m or f (neuter dat, plural de)

1. the

   De Mann gat hen. ― The man walks [lit. goes] there.

   De Fru geiht hen. ― The woman walks [lit. goes] there.

   dat Sakramänt der Eihe (Paderbornisch) ― the sacrament of marriage

• Dative and accusative are sometimes called 'object case'. However, most (if not all) dialects have not actually merged these two.
• There is the only plural article and like English 'the' is used for nouns of every gender and class. Indefinite nouns in plural are used without article, again as in English.

de m or f (neuter dat)

1. (relative) which, that

   de Mann, de dår güng ― the man, which walked there

   de Mann, den wi hüert häbben ― the man, which we hired

   de Fru, de wi hüert hębben ― the woman, which we have hired

   dat Schipp, dat wi sailt hębben ― the ship that we have sailed

• The use as a relative pronoun might not be present in all dialects.

• IPA^(key): [də]

de

1. unstressed form of du