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-tide

/taɪd/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.05 in modern English

Syllables
-tide
IPA
/taɪd/
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

suffix

Time, period (especially around an event or festival), season; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it.

suffix

Used to form names of peptides and glycopeptides.

Etymology

From Middle English -tide, -tyde, from Old English -tīd (in compounds), from tīd (“point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour”); see tide.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

How do you pronounce -tide?
The recorded pronunciation is /taɪd/.
What does -tide mean?
Time, period (especially around an event or festival), season; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it.
Where does -tide come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce -tide

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