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  [ahydz]
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–noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
(in the ancient Roman calendar) the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < OF < L īdūs (fem. pl.); r. ME idus < L
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ides 
(pl.) c.1330, "middle day of a Roman month," from Fr. Ides (12c.), from L. idus "the eighth day after nones," a word perhaps of Etruscan origin. The 15th of March, May, July, and October; the 13th of other months.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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