IIde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• IJde

Etymology

From II (Roman numeral representing two) and secunde.

Adjective

II^de

1. Abbreviation of secunde.
   • 15th century, from Robert Cotton’s manuscript Faustina D. iv., “Appendix VII.”, in Brewer, John Sherren, editor, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages: Monumenta Franciscana, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, published 1858, page 569:

     The II^de is, that the necessitee of the bretherne be present or ellis at hond, and nat for longe tyme to comme. […] The IIde principalle ys, that the bretherne of ther parte owghte to kepe a certene way and forme in suche procuration, the whiche oure holy father Pope Nicholas shewithe in his declaratioun, and they be VI. in numbre.

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Descendants

• English: IInd

See also

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