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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=ine-pro *weyd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈiː.dɔs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiː.dos]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īdos''' ''n'' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|εἶδος|tr=eîdos|t=form, shape]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) which Wiktionary and Köbler trace to [[ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It occurs in Seneca's letters, as the Greek term for the visible form of a thing;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short give the Latin equivalent as [[speciēs]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Seneca's text it is sometimes written in Greek letters, and Haase's edition prints it in Greek throughout.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In British Medieval Latin it was a philosophical term for form, idea or archetype: John of Salisbury uses it, Osbern of Gloucester glosses it as ''forma'' and calls it a Greek word, and Alexander Neckam calls every creature an ''ydos'', a copy of its exemplar in God.^(DMLBS) Roger Bacon reports a derivation of [[īdūs]] from it.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for the visible form of a thing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – British writers use it for form, idea or archetype.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The visible aspect of a thing, [[m|en|form]], [[m|en|shape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, philosophy)'' Form, [[m|en|idea]], [[m|en|archetype]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[idea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}