![]() ![]() It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit veda "I know " Avestan vaeda "I know " Greek oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see " Old Irish fis "vision," find "white," i.e. It forms all or part of: advice advise belvedere clairvoyant deja vu Druid eidetic eidolon envy evident guide guidon guise guy (n.1) "small rope, chain, wire " Gwendolyn Hades history idea ideo- idol idyll improvisation improvise interview invidious kaleidoscope -oid penguin polyhistor prevision provide providence prudent purvey purview review revise Rig Veda story (n.1) "connected account or narration of some happening " supervise survey twit unwitting Veda vide view visa visage vision visit visor vista voyeur wise (adj.) "learned, sagacious, cunning " wise (n.) "way of proceeding, manner " wisdom wiseacre wit (n.) "mental capacity " wit (v.) "to know " witenagemot witting wot. Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to see." by Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant. The philosophical sense has been somewhat further elaborated since 17c. Idée fixe (1836) is from French, literally "fixed idea." Through Latin the word passed into Dutch, German, Danish as idee, which also is found in English dialects. Meaning "mental image or picture" is from 1610s (the Greek word for it was ennoia, originally "act of thinking"), as is the sense "concept of something to be done concept of what ought to be, differing from what is observed." Sense of "result of thinking" first recorded 1640s. In Platonic philosophy, "an archetype, or pure immaterial pattern, of which the individual objects in any one natural class are but the imperfect copies, and by participation in which they have their being". ![]() Late 14c., "archetype, concept of a thing in the mind of God," from Latin idea "Platonic idea, archetype," a word in philosophy, the word (Cicero writes it in Greek) and the idea taken from Greek idea "form the look of a thing a kind, sort, nature mode, fashion," in logic, "a class, kind, sort, species," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of root *weid- "to see." ![]()
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