mundo

From Latin mundus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/
• Rhymes: -undo
• Syllabification: mun‧do

mundo m (plural mundos)

1. world

Borrowed from Spanish mundo (“world”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/
• IPA^(key): /munˈdo/
• Hyphenation: mun‧do

múndo or mundó (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. world; earth

   Synonym: kinaban

• IPA^(key): /munˈdoʔ/
• Hyphenation: mun‧do

mundô (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. to brood, sulk (over, about, because of)
2. to be in awe

   Synonym: sentir

Inherited from Spanish mundo (“world”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/,
• Hyphenation: mun‧do

mundo

1. world

Ultimately from Spanish mundo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/,
• Rhymes: -undo
• Hyphenation^(key): mun‧do

mundo (slang)

1. ecstasy (drug)

• ekstaasi

mundo (Old Beaujolais)

1. Alternative form of mondo (“world”)

• mundo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/
• Rhymes: -undo
• Hyphenation: mun‧do

From Old Galician-Portuguese mundo, from Latin mundus.

mundo m (plural mundos)

1. world
2. a large quantity

   Synonyms: feixe, morea, monte

   Hai un mundo de xente a se manifestar en Hong Kong! ― There is a lot of people demonstrating in Hong Kong! (literally, “There is a world of people demonstrating in Hong Kong!”)

From *mũũdo, from older muudo, from Vulgar Latin mōlūtus, alternative past participle of molō.

• mudo

mundo (feminine munda, masculine plural mundos, feminine plural mundas)

1. milled, ground

   Synonym: moído

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mundo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “muudo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mundo”, 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), “moer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mudo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mundo (plural mundos)

1. world

mundo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מונדו)

1. world

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.doː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.do/,

mundō (present infinitive mundāre, perfect active mundāvī, supine mundātum); first conjugation

1. to clean or cleanse

• French: monder
• Italian: mondare
• Portuguese: mondar
• Sicilian: munnari
• Spanish: mondar

mundō

1. dative/ablative singular of mundus

mundō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mundus

• “mundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

mundo m

1. (Old Lombard) Alternative form of mondo

• mũdo (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mundo, from Latin mundus (“world”).

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmũ.dʷ/
• Rhymes: -ũdu
• Hyphenation: mun‧do

mundo m (plural mundos)

2. (uncountable, with article o) world (the Universe)

   Synonym: universo

   A Terra é o melhor planeta do mundo.

   The Earth is the best planet in the world.

4. (uncountable, with article o) world (the Earth)

   Synonyms: globo, Terra

   A maior parte do mundo é coberta por água.

   Most of the world is covered by water.

6. (uncountable, with article o) world; humanity (human beings collectively)

   Synonyms: homem, humanidade

   O mundo inteiro viu aquilo.

   The whole world saw that.

8. world (everything related to a certain field)

   Synonym: universo

   Habilidade é importante no mundo da música.

   Skill is important in the world of music.

10. world (a large, distinct region)

    Para os europeus do século XV, a América era um novo mundo.

    For 15th century Europeans, America was a new world.

    Por enquanto, Marte é um mundo inabitado.

    Mars is currently an uninhabited world.

    • 2008, Billy M. Hidalgo, Sombras do Infinito, Clube de Autores, page 532:

      Está nos dizendo que abaixo da cachoeira, isto é, no fim dos mundos, no abismo é onde se situa o mundo dos mortos?

      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

12. (informal, with article um) world (a large amount)

    Choveu um mundo de água.

    A world of water had rained.

• Kabuverdianu: mundu
• Papiamentu: mundu
• → Tetum: mundu

• “mundo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• mondo (archaic)

From Latin mundus (“world”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmundo/

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• Rhymes: -undo
• Syllabification: mun‧do

mundo m (plural mundos)

1. world, earth (human collective existence)

   El mundo cambia rápidamente.

   The world is rapidly changing.

   Ella es la persona más feliz del mundo.

   She is the happiest person on earth

2. world, globe (the Earth)

   Synonyms: tierra, (rare, poetic) orbe

3. world (a planet, especially one which is inhabitable)
4. world (an individual or group perspective or social setting)
   • 2018 October 4, Ana Lucía Fábrega, “Una voz para los animales que están en peligro de extinción”, in La Prensa‎:

     Adentrarse en el mundo del arte desde tan joven no es común.

     Breaking into the art world at such a young age isn't common.

• “mundo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• mondo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• munro — dialectal

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /munˈdo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: mun‧do

Borrowed from Spanish mundo (“world”) with stress shift, from Latin mundus (“world”), calque of Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos). Words with a closed penultimate syllable tend to have ultimate stress on earlier stages of the language. Compare Kapampangan mundu.

mundó (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. world; the earth

   Synonym: daigdig

Clipping of Spanish vagamundo, rare form of vagabundo with influence of mundo (“world”), from Late Latin vagabundus. The original word was possibly interpreted to contain the interrogative particle baga. Compare Cebuano bagamundo. Doublet of bagamundo.

mundó (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ) (obsolete)

1. vagabondage; act of wandering around

• “mundo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 591: “Vaguear) Mondo (pc) C. hecho vagamundo”