- aid (n.)
- late 15c., "help, assistance," from O.Fr. aide, earlier aiudha, from L.L. adjuta, from fem. pp. of L. adiuvare (pp. adiutus) "to give help to," from ad- "to" + juvare "to help" (see adjutant). Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from c.1600. Meaning "material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.
- aid (v.)
- late 15c., from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare (pp. adjutus) "give help to" (see adjutant).