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English
Etymology
Shortening of condominium.
Pronunciation
Noun
condo (plural condos)
- (US, Canada, Philippines) Clipping of condominium.
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
condo m (plural condos)
- (Quebec) condominium
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Latin
Etymology
From con- (“together”) + -dō (“put”). Compare conficiō from the same root.
Pronunciation
Verb
condō (present infinitive condere, perfect active condidī, supine conditum); third conjugation
- to put together
- to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct
- Synonyms: aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, compōnō, fundō, cōnstituō, statuō, exstruō, mōlior
- to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; inter, bury
- to conceal, hide, secret, suppress, withdraw
- Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, cooperiō, tegō, abscondō, comprimō, prōtegō, abdō, premō, opprimō, mergō
- Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.176–177:
- Parva metū prīmō, mox sēsē attollit in aurās,
ingrediturque solō, et caput inter nūbila condit.- slight at first fear, soon raises herself sky-high, and strides on the ground, and hides her head among the clouds.
- (figuratively) to thrust or strike in deep, plunge
- (figuratively) to bring to an end, conclude
- Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, conclūdō, dēfungor, absolvō, agō, efficiō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, impleō, exsequor, fungor, perpetrō, gerō, peragō, nāvō, trānsigō, claudō, inclūdō
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References
- “condo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “condo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- condo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- condo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
- to write poetry: poema condere, facere, componere
- after having duly taken the auspices: auspicato (rem gerere, urbem condere)
- to build, found a city: oppidum constituere, condere
- to harvest crops: fructus condere (N. D. 2. 62. 156)
- to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
- to complete the censorship (by certain formal purificatory ceremonies = lustro faciendo): lustrum condere (Liv. 1. 44. 2)
Portuguese
Verb
condo
- first-person singular present indicative of condir
Spanish
Verb
condo
- first-person singular present indicative of condir