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Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lodo, from Latin lutum.
Pronunciation
Noun
lodo m (plural lodos)
- slime, mud, silt
- Synonym: lama
Derived terms
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lodo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lodo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lodo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɔ.do/
- Rhymes: -ɔdo
- Hyphenation: lò‧do
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin, Late Latin laudum, from Latin laudō.
Noun
lodo m (plural lodi)
- (obsolete) praise
- Synonyms: (archaic) loda, lode
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 34–36; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Ed elli a me: « Questo misero modo
tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo.- And he to me: "This miserable way is held by the wretched souls of those who lived without infamy and without praise."
15th c., Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia, collected in Opere volgari, page 160:giuoco pericoloso, di niuno utile, di molta spesa, atta ad acquistarsi più invidia che amistà, più biasimo che lodo- A dangerous game, good for nothing, highly expensive, more fit to attract envy than friendship, more blame than praise
1846, Claudio Dalmazzo, “Libro quinto”, in La prima deca di Tito Livio [Titus Livius' First Decade], translation of Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy, page 39:[…] la qual cosa rende grande pregio e grande lodo a’ vincitori.- which gives great merit and great praise to the winners.
- (law) arbitrator’s award
- Synonyms: sentenza, arbitrato
Further reading
- lodo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lodo
- first-person singular present indicative of lodare
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese lodo, from Latin lutum (“soil, dirt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lodo m (plural lodos)
- sludge, slime
- mud
- silt
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish lodo, from Latin lutum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlodo/
- Rhymes: -odo
- Syllabification: lo‧do
Noun
lodo m (plural lodos)
- mud; muck; mire
- Synonyms: barro, fango, limo
Derived terms
Further reading
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *looto.
Noun
lodo
- shallow, shoal
- sand bank, spit
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “коса, мель, отмель”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika