: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives compare ego, superego
Verb The police have not yet ID'd the victim. studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
New Latin, from Latin, it
Noun suffix (1)
in sense 1, from Latin -ides, masculine patronymic suffix, from Greek -idēs; in sense 2, from Italian -ide, from Latin -id-, -is, feminine patronymic suffix, from Greek
Noun suffix (2)
probably from Latin -id-, -is, feminine patronymic suffix, from Greek