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5-letter words (1 found)

ADIEU,

4-letter words (2 found)

AIDE,IDEA,

3-letter words (9 found)

AID,AUE,DAE,DEI,DIE,DUE,DUI,EAU,IDE,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AE,AI,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,ID,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from adieu according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of adieu

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Definitions and meaning of adieu

adieu

Etymology

From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈdju/, /əˈdu/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/, /əˈd(j)ɪu̯/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

adieu

  2. Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

Usage notes

Although the above pronunciations are usually used in American and RP English, neither is the standard pronunciation in French. /əˈdjɜː/ is used to approximate the French, while /əˈdju(ː)/ is a spelling pronunciation.

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Translations

Noun

adieu (plural adieux or adieus)

  1. A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.
    We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.

Usage notes

Particularly used in phrase bid adieu.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

  • Audie

Catalan

Verb

adieu

  1. only used in us adieu, second-person plural present indicative of adir-se
  2. inflection of adiar:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch adiu, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French [Term?]. Later reinfluenced by French adieu (“to God”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːˈdjøː/, (less common) /aː.diˈøː/
  • Hyphenation: adieu
  • Rhymes: -øː

Interjection

adieu

  1. (Southern) farewell, adieu
    Synonyms: tot ziens, aju, doei, dag, later

Derived terms

  • aju

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: adjo, adjoe
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: adio

French

Etymology

Shortened form of Old French a Dieu vos comant, from Medieval Latin ad Deum, equivalent to Old French à dieu vous commant (“I commend (entrust) you to God”). Compare Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, and Spanish adiós; Catalan adeu; Dutch adjuus; English and Occitan adieu; German tschüss; Greek αντίο (antío); Galician and Portuguese adeus; Italian addio; Maltese addiju; Mirandese adius; Romanian adio; Serbo-Croatian ади̏о, adȉo; Slovene adȋjo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.djø/

Interjection

adieu

  1. farewell, adieu
    Synonym: au revoir
    Antonym: bonjour
    Near-synonym: à plus tard
    se dire adieu ― to say goodbye
  2. (Canada, Louisiana) goodbye, see you soon
  3. (Southern France) hello
  4. (Switzerland) hello, goodbye

Derived terms

  • dire adieu

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: àdje (Alsatian)
  • Danish: adjø
  • German: tschö
  • Hungarian: agyő
  • Luxembourgish: äddi
  • Norwegian: adjø
  • Polish: adieu
  • Russian: адьё (adʹjó)
  • Swedish: adjö
  • Yiddish: אַדיע (adye)

Noun

adieu m (plural adieux)

  1. farewell
    Synonym: au revoir
    Antonym: bonjour
    faire ses adieux à quelqu’un ― to bid farewell to someone
    leurs tendres adieux ― their tender farewells
    des adieux émouvants ― moving farewells
    un mot d’adieu ― a word of farewell
    sans adieu ― without farewell

Derived terms

  • faire ses adieux

See also

  • à-Dieu-va, à-Dieu-vat

Further reading

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

Occitan

Pronunciation

Interjection

adieu

  1. hello
  2. goodbye

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French adieu. First attested in the 19th century. Doublet of adio and adios.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈdjɛ/
  • Rhymes: -adjɛ
  • Syllabification: a‧dieu

Interjection

adieu

  1. (literary) adieu (said to wish a final farewell; goodbye)

References

Further reading

  • adieu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • adieu in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adieu”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[2]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adje, adju”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7

Source: wiktionary.org