Ide
A surname transferred from the given name.
Contraction
- Obsolete form of I'd.
- Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme...
Proper noun
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).
Origin
From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.