druid

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɹuːɪd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈdɹʉwɪd/
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• US: /ˈdɹu.ɪd/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈdɹʉːɪd/
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• Scotland: /ˈdɾʉ.ɪd/
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• Wales: /ˈdɾɪu̯.ɪd/
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• rhymes with -uːɪd
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• CMU ARPABET: D R UW1 IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”) (whence also English wizard; Proto-Slavic *vědьma (> Russian ве́дьма (védʹma))). The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: դրուիդ (druid) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Breton: drouiz — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Catalan: druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Chinese Cantonese: 德魯伊 /德鲁伊 (dak1 lou5 yi1) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Chinese Mandarin: 德魯伊 /德鲁伊 (délǔyī) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Chinese Mandarin: 督伊德 (dūyīdé) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Cornish: drewydh — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Dutch: druïde — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Esperanto: druido — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Estonian: druiid — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Finnish: druidi — one of an order of Celtic priests
• French: druide — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Georgian: დრუიდი (druidi) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• German: Druide — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Greek: δρυίδης (dryídis) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Hungarian: druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Ido: druido — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Irish: draoi — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Italian: druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Italian: druido — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Japanese: ドルイド (doruido) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Korean: 드루이드 (deuru'ideu) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Latin: Druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Macedonian: дру́ид (drúid) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Manx: druaight — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Māori: ruiti — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Norwegian: druide — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Old English: drȳ — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Polish: druid — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Polish: druidka — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Portuguese: druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Romanian: druid — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Russian: друи́д (druíd) — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Scottish Gaelic: draoidh — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Spanish: druida — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Swedish: druid — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Walloon: drude — one of an order of Celtic priests
• Welsh: derwydd — one of an order of Celtic priests