ode

Multiple Entries:
  ode    -ode  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ode/əʊd/

▶noun

• 1 a lyric poem, typically in the form of an address, written in varied or irregular metre.

• 2 a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung.

– origin C16: from Fr., from late L. oda, from Gk ōidē, Attic form of aoidē ‘song’, from aeidein ‘sing’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-ode1

▶combining form of the nature of a specified thing: geode.

– origin from Gk adjectival ending -ōdēs.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-ode2

▶combining form in names of electrodes, or devices having them: diode.

– origin from Gk hodos ‘way’.