Gloeide

Gloeide is the verleden tijd (simple past) form of the Dutch verb gloeien, which means to glow or to emit light and heat. It describes something that, at a previous time, was glowing or hot. In everyday language and in historical texts, gloeide is used to talk about embers, red-hot metal, or a luminescent reaction that produced visible light.

In literary and descriptive writing, gloeide often conveys a vivid sense of warmth or danger, as when describing the glow of coals in a furnace or the afterglow of a sunset. In technical contexts, the related verb gloeien is tied to processes that cause materials to glow, such as metallurgy and glassmaking, where heating can alter properties and appearance. When reporting the outcome of such processes, a writer might say the metal gloeide before cooling or, more commonly, describe the material as gloed or gloeiend to indicate its current luminous state.

Etymology and related forms: gloeien is of Germanic origin and is cognate with the English glow; in Dutch it is part of a family that includes gloed (glow) and gloeiend (glowing). The form gloeide has been used in Dutch since medieval times and remains recognizable mainly in literary, historical, and some technical contexts. In contemporary speech, the present tense gloeien or the noun gloed are more common for describing a glow, while gloeide appears primarily in past-tense narration or written records.

See also: gloed, gloeiend, gloeidraad.