# aide
## English
### Alternative forms

* aid

### Etymology

Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /eɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: aid
* Rhymes: -eɪd

### Noun

aide (plural aides)
* An assistant.
** 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
** 2009 January 13, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, “Sounding Like a Rival, Weiner Attacks Bloomberg”, in The New York Times‎:Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]
* (military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.

#### Derived terms

* metro aide
* teacher's aide

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Adie, daie, idea

## Abinomn
### Noun

aide
* father

## Asturian
### Verb

aide
* first-person singular present subjunctive of aidar
* third-person singular present subjunctive of aidar

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛd/
** Audio (Lyon):(file)
* (Quebec) IPA: /aɛd/
** Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛd

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.

#### Noun

aide f (plural aides)
* help, support
    Synonym: secours m
    à l’aide d’un ordinateurwith the help of a computer
    Votre protection est sa seule aide.Your protection is her sole support.
    Il faut une aide financière pour les victimes.There must be financial aid for the victims.
* (sports) assist

##### Derived terms

* à l’aide
* aide de camp
* avez-vous besoin d’aide
* merci pour ton aide
* merci pour votre aide
* venir en aide

#### Noun

aide m or f by sense (plural aides)
* aide (person)

### Etymology 2

From aider, with the third-person singular form corresponding to Latin adiūtat.

#### Verb

aide
* inflection of aider:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular present imperative

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* ayde, eyde, eide, eayde

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aide.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæi̯d(ə)/

### Noun

aide (uncountable)
* Help given; aid.
* A tax levied for defence.
* (rare) One who assists.

#### Related terms

* aiden
* aydaunt

#### Descendants

* English: aid
* Scots: aid

#### References

* “aide, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* (very early) adiudha, aiudha
* (early) aiue, aie

### Etymology

From aidier. The regular form would have been aie, which is in fact attested; aide is a remodeling on the verb.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (early) /ˈai̯də/
* IPA: (late) /ˈɛdə/

### Noun

aide oblique singular, f (oblique plural aides, nominative singular aide, nominative plural aides)
* help; assistance; aid

#### Related terms

* aidier

#### Descendants

* → Middle English: aide, ayde, eyde, eide, eayde
** English: aid
** Scots: aid
* Middle French: ayde
** French: aide
*** → English: aide

## Romanian
### Interjection

aide
* Alternative form of haide

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

aide f
* genitive singular of ad