dado

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See also: Dado and dàdo

English

WOTD – 26 January 2007
An architectural dado in the Taj Mahal.
Dado in carpentry: a through dado (left) and a stopped dado.

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

  1. (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
  2. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.
  3. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Translations

Verb

dado (third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed)

  1. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
  2. (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.

Translations

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Noun

dádo (plural dados, Basahan spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. die (used in board games)

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a form *datu of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Pronunciation

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (gaming) die

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. Equivalent to dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of dato.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. offered
    Synonym: oferecido
  2. granted, conceded (given)
    Synonym: concedido
  3. given, fixed
    Synonym: determinado
  4. friendly, sociable
    Synonyms: afábel, afable
  5. generous
    Synonyms: desinteresado, xeneroso
  6. prone, inclined
    Synonym: propenso

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. past participle of dar

References

  • “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “dado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “dado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “dado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “dado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Hiligaynon

Noun

dadô

  1. a young fish

Related terms

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/,
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Noun

dádo (Kur-itan spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. (gaming) die; dice

References

  • Andrés Carro (1888) Vocabulario ilocano-español: trabajado por varios religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Agustín / coordinado por Predicador Andrés Carro y ultimamente aumentado y corregido por algunos religiosos del mismo orden‎ (overall work in Spanish and Ilocano), Manila: Est. Tipo-Litográfico de M. Pérez

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈda.do/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: dà‧do

Noun

dado m (plural dadi)

  1. (gaming) die, dice
    giocare a dadi ― to play dice
  2. (by extension) any small cube-shaped object
  3. (cooking) stock cube
    minestra di dadi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. (engineering) nut (intended to be screwed onto a bolt)

Anagrams

Ladino

Noun

dado m (Latin spelling, plural dados)

  1. (gaming) die

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin dātum.

Pronunciation

Noun

dado m

  1. die
    • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 294 (facsimile):
      Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſa mari por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.
      How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

  • Galician: dado
  • Portuguese: dado

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Verb

dado

  1. second-person singular imperfect active of dadāti (“to give”)

Portuguese

dado

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -adu
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (gaming) a die
    Alguns jogos utilizam um dado que vai até 100.
    Some games use a die numbered up to 100.
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. By surface analysis, dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of data.

Adjective

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. offered
    Synonym: oferecido
  2. granted, conceded (given)
    Synonym: concedido
  3. given, fixed
    Synonym: determinado
    Em um dado momento.
    At a given moment.
  4. friendly, sociable
    Synonym: afável
    Eles são muito dados.
    They are very friendly.
  5. prone, inclined
    Synonyms: propenso, inclinado

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (computing, sciences) data; datum (item of information)
    Não encontrei nenhum dado no sistema.
    I did not find any data in the system.

Determiner

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. a given; a particular; a specific
    Em dado momento, os morcegos sairão da caverna.
    The bats will leave the cave in a given moment.
    A família mora em uma dada localidade no vale.
    The family lives in a given location in the valley.
Usage notes
  • Optionally used with an article.

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. past participle of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: da‧do

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (gaming) a die or dice

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin dātus. See dar.

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

  1. past participle of dar
Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado (“die”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dado (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. die; dice
  2. (mechanics) bushing

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