Noun: idee
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Het idee om een datacentrum te bouwen dichtbij het dorp stuitte op weerstand. (The idea to build a data centre near the village met with opposition.)
Nouns inflected like idee
etiologie,
chronologie,
methodologie,
bobslee,
glossolalie,
gentherapie,
hegemonie,
hypocrisie,
zoölogie,
filosofie,
zoötomie,
baronie,
pelorie,
terminologie,
schizofrenie,
psychotherapie,
kretologie,
rebellie,
parodie,
kosmogonie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch idee, borrowed from Middle French idee, from Old French idee, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “to see”), related to French idée. See: Latin Nouns '
idea', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἰδέα'.
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