aid
Definitions
General English
- noun help, especially money, food or other gifts given to people living in difficult conditions
- verb to help something to happen
General Science
- noun help given to someone
- noun help such as food, medicines, equipment or people offered to somewhere that has experienced difficult conditions or a disaster
- verb to help or give support to someone or something
Aviation
- noun something which helps somebody do something
Economics
- noun help given to a business or region by a government
Medical
- noun a machine, tool or drug which helps someone do something
- acronym forartificial insemination by donor (written as AID)
- acronym forDI (written as AID)
- prefix two, double
Food
- Walnuts
- prefix containing two atoms, radicals or groups
Origin
- Aid comes ultimately from the same source as adjutant (which originally meant simply ‘assistant’). Latin juvāre became, with the addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’, adjuvāre ‘give help to’; from its past participle adjutus was formed a new verb, adjūtāre, denoting repeated action, and this passed into Old French as aïdier, the source of English aid.
Origin & History of “aid”
Aid comes ultimately from the same source as adjutant (which originally meant simply ‘assistant’). Latin juvāre became, with the addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’, adjuvāre ‘give help to’; from its past participle adjutus was formed a new verb, adjūtāre, denoting repeated action, and this passed into Old French as aïdier, the source of English aid.
