fordo

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (to ruin, destroy), equivalent to for- +‎ do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (to waste, consume), West Frisian ferdwaan (to waste), Dutch verdoen (to kill, waste), German Low German verdoon (to waste, consume), German vertun (to waste, spend, consume).

Pronunciation

Verb

fordo (third-person singular simple present fordoes, present participle fordoing, simple past fordid, past participle fordone)

  1. (obsolete) To kill, destroy.
  2. (obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book III (in Middle English):
      And that penaūce god hath ordeyned yow for that dede / that he that ye shalle most truste to of ony man alyue / he shalle leue yow ther ye shalle be slayne / Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny
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  3. (archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.
    • 1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)
      And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
  4. (archaic) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
      worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw.

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Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

fordō

  1. inflection of fordōn:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive
    3. singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: for‧do

Etymology 1

Blend of forte (strong) +‎ gordo (fat, chubby).

Noun

fordo m (plural fordos, feminine forda, feminine plural fordas)

  1. (informal) someone who is both strong/athletic and chubby; a strong or athletic person with high body fat.

Etymology 2

From Latin *fordus.[1]

Adjective

fordo (feminine forda, masculine plural fordos, feminine plural fordas)

  1. full; pregnant

References

  1. ^ fordo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024