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id en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

Meanings

  1. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
    • "There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?" 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
    • Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id. 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
    • The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years. 2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

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Coordinates

superego · ego

Deriveds

idlike · idant

Synonyms

reptilian brain (unconscious impulsive component of the personality) · lizard brain (unconscious impulsive component of the personality)

Translations (26)

da id (id) · oc aquò (id) · tr id (id) · fa نهاد (id) · tr alt benlik (id) · sv det (id) · hi इदम् (id) · cmn 本我 (id) · sv underjag (id) · da underjeg (id) · el εκείνο (id) · eu zera (id) · de Es (id) · fr ça (id) · es ello (id) · ar هُوَ (id) · oc id (id) · hu ösztön-én (id) · ja エス (id) · pl id (id) · nl Es (id) · it es (id) · nl id (id) · fi viettipohja (id) · eo ĝio (id) · pt id (id)

Source: en.wiktionary, “id” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

id en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Swedish id.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)
    alt of ide

Forms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “id” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

id en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Abbreviation of identifier.

Meanings

  1. Identifier.

Forms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “id” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

id en · PRON · etymology 4

Etymology

Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem (“same”).

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of id..
    alt of id.

Relateds

id reaction · ID · et id genus omne