# onde
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”).
Cognate with Scots aynd, eind, end (“breath”), German Ahnd, And (“pain, anguish”), Danish ånd, ånde (“breath, spirit”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Latin anima (“breath, spirit”). More at animal.

#### Alternative forms

* aand, aind, and, ande, aynd

#### Noun

onde (usually uncountable, plural ondes)
* (obsolete) envy; hatred; malice
    Wrathe, yre, and onde — The Romaunt of the Rose.
    Synonyms: envy, hatred
* (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) breath
    Synonym: breath

##### Derived terms

* in ande
* out of ande

### Etymology 2

From Middle English onden (Northern dialect ande), from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”).

#### Alternative forms

* ande, aind, eand

#### Verb

onde (third-person singular simple present ondes, present participle onding, simple past and past participle onded)
* (intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To breathe; breathe on.

##### Derived terms

* onding

### Anagrams

* Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, NODE, done, endo, endo-, node, oden, oned

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin unde.

### Adverb

onde
* where

#### Synonyms

* (where): ú

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech onde, from Proto-Slavic *onъde. Its Czech cognates include pronouns onen, onam, onehdy, ondy, onak. Compare verb zaonačit and Serbo-Croatian онде (“over there”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈondɛ]
* Hyphenation: on‧de

### Adverb

onde
* (dated) elsewhere
    Synonym: jinde

### References

* ↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “onen”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 472
* ↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “on”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 472

### Further reading

* “onde”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “onde”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

### Anagrams

* done, node

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔnə]
* Homophone: unde

### Etymology 1

From ond +‎ -e.

#### Noun

onde n (singular definite ondet, plural indefinite onder)
* evil
* nuisance

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

onde
* inflection of ond:
** definite singular
** plural

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch onde, from Old Dutch *unthia, from Proto-West Germanic *unþi, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *unþī. Cognate to German Unde.

### Noun

onde f (plural onden, diminutive ondje n)
* (archaic, dialectal) wave
    Synonym: golf

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French unde, onde, from Latin unda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ̃d/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

onde f (plural ondes)
* (technical) wave
* (literary, dated) water, especially calm water

#### Derived terms

* longueur d’onde
* micro-onde
* onde de choc
* onde électromagnétique
* onde gravitationnelle
* onde stationnaire

#### Related terms

* onduler

#### See also

* vague

### Further reading

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

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin unda.

### Noun

onde f (plural ondis)
* wave

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese onde, from Latin unde (“whence”). Cognate with Portuguese onde and Asturian onde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈonde̝/

### Adverb

onde
* (interrogative) where (at what place)
* (interrogative) where (to what place)
    Synonym: a onde

### Conjunction

onde
* where (at or in which place or situation)

### Pronoun

onde
* where (the place in which)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “onde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “onde”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “onde”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “onde”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “onde”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈon.de/
* Rhymes: -onde
* Hyphenation: ón‧de

### Etymology 1

From Latin unde.

#### Adverb

onde
* (archaic) whence; from where or which

#### Conjunction

onde
* (archaic) whence; from where or which
    Synonym: donde
* (literary) so that, in order to
    Synonyms: acciò, (obsolete) acciocché, affinché, talché
* (archaic) with which; that... with
    Synonym: con cui
** 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “I — Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–2; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono ¶ di quei sospiri ond’io nudriva ’l core […]Ye who in scattered rhymes hear the sound of those sighs that I fed my heart with […]

##### Related terms

* donde
* ondeché

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

onde f
* plural of onda

### References

* ↑ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

### Anagrams

* -endo, endo-

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

onde
* inflection of ond:
** definite singular
** plural

### Etymology 2

Probably from the adjective ond

#### Noun

onde n (definite singular ondet, indefinite plural onder, definite plural onda or ondene)
* (an) evil
* (medical) a disease, malady, complaint, condition

##### Derived terms

* hjerteonde

#### See also

* vonde (Nynorsk)

### References

* “onde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “onde” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

### Anagrams

* doen, done, node, oden, endo-

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese onde, from Latin unde (“whence”). Compare Spanish donde.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.d͡ʒi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.d͡ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.de/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈõ.dɨ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.di/
* (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /õd͡ʒ/
* Audio:(file) (Brazil)

### Adverb

onde (not comparable)
* where; wherever (in or at what place; in or at a/any/the place that, in what situation)
    Synonym: (nonstandard) aonde
    Onde estão as chaves? ― Where are the keys?
    Fique onde está. ― Stay where you are.
    Por favor, se sente onde você preferir. ― Please sit wherever you like.
** 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (relative) where (the place in or at which)
    Synonyms: em que, no qual, na qual, (nonstandard) aonde
    Esta é a praia onde nos casamos. ― This is the beach where we got married.
    Vou ao restaurante onde ele gosta de comer. ― I’m going to the restaurant where he likes to eat.
** (relative, proscribed) where (in a situation, position, case, timeframe, etc.)
    Synonyms: (standard) em que, no qual, na qual, (nonstandard) aonde
    Quais são as modalidades onde seu filho é campeão? ― Which are the sports where your child is a champion?
    Dezembro é a época do ano onde as pessoas ficam mais solidárias, não é mesmo? ― December is the time of year where people are at their most supportive, isn't it?
** (relative, proscribed) whose
*** 2002 May 6, Janice Helena Chaves Marinho, O funcionamento discursivo do item onde: uma abordagem modular (doctoral dissertation), Belo Horizonte: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos (PosLin), Texto 7:Entretanto, a língua sofre várias mudanças durante cada geração, e em diferentes regiões do Brasil, causando, muitas vezes, certo desentendimento em diálogos, onde os participantes possuam uma grande diferença de idade ou pertençam a regiões diferentes do país. (written by an university student)However, the language undergoes several changes during each generation, and in different regions of Brazil, often causing some misunderstanding in dialogues whose participants have a large age difference or belong to different regions of the country.(= Participants of the dialogues have a large age difference or belong to different regions of the country.)
* (proscribed, colloquial) where; wherever; whither (to what place; to a/any/the place that; to which; the place to which)
    Synonym: (standard) aonde
    Onde cê tá indo? ― Where are you going?
    Sempre pesquisa as leis de onde você vai viajar. ― Always search for the laws of wherever you'll travel.
    Ela mora em São Paulo, onde a gente foi ano passado. ― She lives in São Paulo, where we went last year.
    Essa é uma foto de onde eu fui nas férias. ― This is a photo of where I went on holiday.

#### Derived terms

* aonde
* aonde quer que
* de onde em onde
* donde
* donde quer que
* onde quer que

#### Descendants

* Macanese: úndi

#### Usage notes

* Some authorities proscribe sense 2.1, as it isn't the original sense, and sense 3 since the 19th century due to a prescription of Brazilian lexicographer Antônio de Morais Silva, although the senses have been attested for centuries.

### References

* ↑ Evanildo Bechara (2012 February 12) “A grafia de abreviatura e o emprego de ‘onde’”, in O Dia‎ (in Portuguese)
* ↑ Evanildo Bechara (2012 February 19) “Emprego de ‘onde’ ou ‘em que’ (continuação)”, in O Dia‎ (in Portuguese)
* ↑ Filipe Carvalho (2016 September 26) “«Onde», «em que», «no qual»”, in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa‎ (in Portuguese)
* ↑ Jorge Viana de Moraes (2024 June 21) “«Onde - Aprenda a usar corretamente essa palavra”, in UOL‎ (in Portuguese), Pesquisa Escolar, Português
* ↑ Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2023 November 22) “Dica nº 20 – Emprego da palavra "onde"”, in Portal ECG‎ (in Portuguese)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* óndje (Ijekavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *onъde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒːnde/
* Hyphenation: o‧nde

### Adverb

ónde (Cyrillic spelling о́нде)
* over there

## Shona
### Noun

ondé class 5 (plural maondé class 6)
* fig
    Synonym: guyu

#### Related terms

* muonde

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin unde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈonde/ [ˈõn̪.d̪e]
* Rhymes: -onde
* Syllabification: on‧de

### Adverb

onde
* Obsolete form of donde.

#### Usage notes

* Still in use in some places of Spain.

### Further reading

* “onde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Adjective

onde
* definite natural masculine singular of ond

### Anagrams

* Oden