ides
/ʌɪdz
/plural noun
(In the ancient Roman calendar) a day falling roughly in the middle of each month (the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th of other months) from which other dates were calculated. Compare with nones, calends.The character who seems most conscious that the ides of March falls within Lent is Brutus, especially in his account of the manner in which the assassination should be conducted....
- The received date of Christ's crucifixion was 25 March - hence the year number changed on that day - and 25 March by the Gregorian calendar was 15 March Julian, the ides.
- Madness, since the ides of Roman times, comes in March.
Origin
Late Old English: from Old French, from Latin idus (plural), of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- carrot
- carrot-and-stick
- carrot cake
- carrot fly
- carrot juice
- carrot-top
- carrot-topped
- carrotwood
- carroty
- carry
- carryall
- carry all before one
- carry a torch for
- carryback note
- carry conviction
- carrycot
- carrying capacity
- carrying charge
- carryings-on
- carrying trade
- carry on
- carry one's bat
- carry-out
- carry over
- carry someone/thing off