Etymograph

English

id

Id comes from New Latin id ‘it’, chosen by Freud’s translator to render German Es ‘it’.

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900id1‘it’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1912id1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English id
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “"There is one sentence in it, however - namely:…”.

Lineage

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900idWiktionary, English id‘it’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1912idWiktionary, English id. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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

  1. Swedishmodernid
  2. Englishtodayid

Another origin of id

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*izdimreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEidem‘same’
  3. Englishtodayid

Today it means

noun The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “id”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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