English
id
Id comes from New Latin id ‘it’, chosen by Freud’s translator to render German Es ‘it’.
- New Latinc. 1500–1900id‘it’
- Englishearliest quotation 1912same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- New Latinc. 1500–1900id‘it’
- Englishearliest quotation 1912same form
Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “There is one sentence in it, however - namely:…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ís ‘this, he’
an, one, no, none, unique, universal, unite, null, yonder, yon, 15 more
Another origin of id
- Swedishmodernid
- Englishtodaysame form
Another origin of id
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*izdimreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEidem‘same’
- Englishtodayid
Today it means
noun The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / New Latin id / id