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Fijian
Verb
dolo
- (intransitive) to creep, to crawl (used to refer to creatures without legs)
dolo (dolo-va)
- (transitive) to creep to, on or over
Usage notes
The verbs dolo and dolova should only be used for creatures without legs such as snakes, worms and eels. For creatures with legs, one should use yaqa (especially for insects and bugs that do have legs) and qasi (for other creatures with legs).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɔlo
- Hyphenation: dò‧lo
Noun
dolo m (plural doli)
- (law) malice
- fraud, deceit
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *dolaō, from earlier *dolajō, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁yéti, from *delh₁- (“to cut”).
Verb
dolō (present infinitive dolāre, perfect active dolāvī, supine dolātum); first conjugation
- to hew, chop into shape
- to fashion, devise
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
dolō m
- dative/ablative singular of dolus
References
- “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dolo 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)
- “dolo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dolo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
Derived from French de l’ (“some”) + French eau (“water”), with the partitive article re-analyzed as part of the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
dolo
- water
- (a) body of water
- (a) tear (a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation)
Derived terms
See also
References
- Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole (1998), →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.lɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
- Syllabification: do‧lo
Noun
dolo f
- vocative singular of dola
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dolus.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
dolo m (plural dolos)
- deceit, trick, fraud
- (law) intentional transgression
Derived terms
References
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdolo/
- Rhymes: -olo
- Syllabification: do‧lo
Noun
dolo m (plural dolos)
- fraud
- (law) malice
Further reading
Tayo
Noun
dolo
- water
- Philip Baker,From Contact to Creole and Beyond (1995), page 139:
- dolo sa le sal
- the water which is dirty
- Synonym: delo
Wutunhua
Etymology
From Mandarin 朵落.
Pronunciation
Noun
dolo
- head (body part)
References
- Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN