From en.wiktionary.org:
[ideá]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] [en], from [en], from [grc], ultimately from [en]. Cognate with [fr].
[en]. Related to [notext=1].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] [1]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] , [en]
*** Noun
[s]
1. [en] An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximation s; pure essence , as opposed to actual examples. [from 14th c.]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-10-19 | volume=409 | issue=8858 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Trouble at the lab (see
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21588115-younger-generation-emerges-aung-san-suu-kyis-shadow-and-tries-turn-her-party)
|passage=The IDEA that the same experiments always get the same results, no
matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to
objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the
same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators
claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming
contend). Either way, something is awry.}}
1. [en] The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example ; an ideal . [16th]
2. [en] The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic . [16th]
3. * [chapter=6]
4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. [from 16th c.]
5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought , a notion ; a way of thinking. [from 17th c.]
6. * [chapter=3]
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1952 | author=w:Alfred Whitney Griswold
|passage= IDEAS won't go to jail.}}
1. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention . [from 17th c.]
2. A purposeful aim or goal; intent
3. * [chapter=3]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-01 | volume=407 | issue=8838 | page=71 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=End of the peer show (see
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21578670-peer-peer-lending-needs-new-name-end-peer-show)
|passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the IDEA of peer-to-peer lending
comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and
lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those
that want to lend.}}
1. A vague or fanciful notion ; a feeling or hunch ; an impression . [from 17th c.]
2. [en] A musical theme or melodic subject . [from 18th c.]
**** Synonyms
- [mental transcript, image, or picture] [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|counteridea|ideaed|ideaful|ideagenous|ideahood|idealess|ideamonger|ideascape|ideathon|monoideism|nonidea|subidea|unideaed
|absolute idea|abstract idea|all the gear and no idea|buck up one's
ideas|business idea|fixed idea|get the idea|have no idea|have the first
idea|idea art|idea'd|idea dinner|idea future|idea hamster|idea man|idea
monger|idea of reference|idea pot|idea
virus|life-idea|memory-idea|mother-idea|no idea|not have the faintest idea|not
have the first idea|one-idea|over-valued idea|overvalued idea|received
idea|sense-idea|simple idea|war of ideas|what's the big idea|the very idea}}
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Collocations
[2]
- good idea
- bad idea
- better idea
- great idea
- new idea
- slightest idea
- least idea
- basic idea
- general idea
- whole idea
- fixed idea
- mistaken idea
- leading idea
- guiding idea
- confused idea
- following idea
- controlling idea
- prevailing idea
- ruling idea
- accepted idea
- clear idea
- original idea
[col-bottom]
**** Descendants
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
**** Translations
[philosophy: abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life
examples are seen as imperfect]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[_(obsolete in English)_ the conception of someone or something as
representing an ideal]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
[trans-bottom]
[_(obsolete in English)_ the form or shape of something; a quintessential
aspect or characteristic]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
[trans-bottom]
[an image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt] , [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] ), [vi] ( [vi] ), [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[a conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something,
an intention]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[a vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[a musical theme or melodic subject]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [II]
[2]. [R:TotfalusiEty 2005]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
- [R:MWO]
- [R:AHD]
- [R:Collins]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Asturian
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [ast], from [ast], from [grc].
*** Noun
[f]
1. [ast]
**** Related terms
- [ast]
** Catalan
*** Alternative forms
- [ca]
*** Etymology
[ca], from [ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [é] < !-- per GDLC, DNV, DCVB; DCVB says /ɛ/ also for Barcelona contra GDLC -->
- [ca]
*** Noun
[f]
1. An idea , a mental representation of a real or imaginary thing
2. An elementary or general notion of something
3. A concept to be realized, plan of action, purpose , intention
4. The fundamental, substantial part of a doctrine , a reasoning , etc
**** Usage notes
- Often pronounced as [ca] .
**** Related terms
- [ca]
- [ca]
- [ca]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
[ca]
** Chinese
*** Etymology
From [yue].
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=aai6 di1 aa4 |cat=n }}
*** Noun
[zh]
1. [zh] [en] ; plan
*** References
- [R:yue:ELHKC]
** Czech
*** Etymology
[cs], from [cs], from [grc].
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] [that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity]
**** Declension
[f]
**** Related terms
{{col|cs|ideace |idealizace |idealizovaný |idealizovat |ideolog |ideologický
|ideologie |ideový |ideál |idealista |idealismus |ideozločin}}
*** Further reading
- [R:cs:PSJC]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
- [R:cs:IJP]
** Finnish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [fi], from [fi].
*** Pronunciation
[fi-p]
*** Noun
[fi-noun]
1. idea
**** Declension
[ide]
**** Derived terms
{{col|fi |ideoida |idis }}
{{col|fi|title=compounds |bisnesidea |ideakilpailu |ideanikkari |ideariihi
|idearikas |kuningasidea |liikeidea |ohjelmaidea |tuoteidea }}
*** Further reading
- [accessdate=2023-07-02]
** Galician
*** Alternative forms
- [gl]
*** Etymology
[gl], from [gl], from [grc].
*** Pronunciation
[idèa]
- [gl]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [gl]
*** Further reading
- [R:gl:DRAG]
** Hungarian
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [hu], from [hu]. [2]
*** Pronunciation
- [hu-IPA]
- [hu]
- [hu]
*** Noun
[pl=ideák]
1. [hu] idea
**** Declension
[ideá][ideá]
*** References
References:
[1]. [II]
[2]. [R:TotfalusiEty 2005]
*** Further reading
- [R:ErtSz]
** Interlingua
*** Noun
[s]
1. idea
** Italian
*** Pronunciation
[idèa]
*** Etymology 1
[it], from [it], from [grc].
**** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
***** Related terms
- [it]
- [it]
- [it]
- [it]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Further reading
- [R:it:Treccani]
*** Anagrams
- [it]
** Latin
*** Etymology
From [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [idea]
*** Noun
[idea <1>]
1. idea
2. * {{ quote-text | la | year=1719 | author=w:Johann Jakob Brucker
|passage=_Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de IDEIS_
|translation=_An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of
IDEAS_}}
1. prototype (Platonic)
**** Declension
[idea <1>]
**** Descendants
[top3]
- [ast]
- [ca]
- [en]
- [da]
- [nl]
- [fr]
- [fur]
- [gl]
- [hu]
- [ga]
- [it]
- [pms]
- [pl]
- [pt]
- [ro]
- [es]
[bottom]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:du Cange]
** Malay
[lang=ms]
*** Etymology
[ms], from [ms], from [ms], from [grc].
*** Pronunciation
[ai.die]
- [ms]
[idéa]
- [ms]
*** Noun
[j=ايديا]
1. idea
**** Alternative forms
- [id] [Indonesia]
** Maltese
*** Alternative forms
- [mt]
*** Etymology
[mt].
*** Pronunciation
- [mt]
- [mt] [one pronunciation]
- [mt]
*** Noun
[g=f]
1. [en] ; thought ; opinion
**** Related terms
[mt]
** Northern Sami
*** Etymology
[se]
*** Pronunciation
- [se-IPA]
*** Noun
[se-noun]
1. idea
**** Inflection
[se]
**** Further reading
- [R:Álgu]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-idea.ogg;LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-idea.wav]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] [image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory]
2. [pl] [en] [abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect]
3. keynote , mission statement
**** Declension
{{pl-decl-noun |idea|idee |idei|idei |idei|ideom |ideę|idee |ideą|ideami
|idei|ideach |ideo|idee }}
**** Derived terms
[pl] [pl] [pl]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Verb
[conj=1]
1. to invent , to conceive
**** Conjugation
[ro-conj-a-ez]
** Slovak
*** Etymology
[sk], from [sk], from [grc].
*** Pronunciation
- [iDea]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] [that which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity]
**** Declension
[f]
**** Related terms
{{col|sk |ideológ<g:m> |ideologický<g:m> |ideológia<g:f> |ideový<g:m>
|ideál<g:m> |idealista<g:m> |idealistický<g:m> |idealizácia<g:f>
|idealizmus<g:m> }}
*** Further reading
- [R:sk:SDK]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[+< audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-AdrianAbdulBaha-idea.wav < a:Colombia>>]
*** Etymology 1
[es], from [es], from [grc]. Compare [pt].
**** Alternative forms
- [es]
**** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
***** Derived terms
[es]
***** Related terms
[es]
*** Etymology 2
[nonlemma]
**** Verb
[es]
1. [idear]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
[es]
** Tagalog
*** Alternative forms
- [tl]
*** Etymology
[tl], from [tl], from [tl].
*** Pronunciation
[ideá,+]
*** Noun
[ideá]
1. [en] ; opinion
2. plan ; intention
**** Derived terms
[tl]
**** Related terms
[tl]
*** Further reading
- [R:KWF Diksiyonaryo]
- [R:Pambansang Diksiyonaryo]