tardo

From Spanish tardo (“slow”), from Latin tardus.

tardo (plural tardos)

1. (archaic) A sloth.
   • 1881, Lippincott's magazine: Volume 27:

     On my last trip to Vera Cruz I procured a pair of black tardos, full-grown and in a normal state of health […]

• Dorta, Troad, dotar, troad

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾdo/
• Rhymes: -aɾdo

Deverbal from tardar.

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)

1. slow, unhurried, calm

   Synonyms: calmo, pousado, vagaroso

2. late, tardy

From the same origin that trasno (“goblin”).

tardo m (plural tardos)

1. (folklore) nightmare (goblin who plagues people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation)

   Synonym: pesadelo

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tardo”, 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), “tardo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tardo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.do/
• Rhymes: -ardo
• Hyphenation: tàr‧do

Inherited from Latin tardus.

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardi, feminine plural tarde)

1. slow, sluggard, dull, slow-witted, dull-witted
2. late, tardy

• tardamente

• tardare
• tarde
• tardi
• tardivo

• tardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardare

From tardus.

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

tardō (present infinitive tardāre, perfect active tardāvī, supine tardātum); first conjugation

1. to check or retard, hinder, impede or delay

   Synonyms: refrēnō, dētineō, reprimō, officiō, cohibeō, obstō, intersaepiō, prohibeō, impediō, arceō, perimō, moror

2. to hesitate

   Synonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, trahō, dubitō

   Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō

• tardus

tardō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tardus

• “tardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: tar‧do

From Latin tardus.

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)

1. sluggish, lazy

• tardar
• tarde
• tardio

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾdo/
• Rhymes: -aɾdo
• Syllabification: tar‧do

From Latin tardus, possibly borrowed. First attested 15th century.^[1]

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)

1. tardy, late

   Synonym: atrasado

2. slow, sluggish

   Synonym: lento

3. dim-witted

   Synonym: cortito

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardar

• “tardo”, 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