vado

Czech

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Noun

vado

1. vocative singular of vada

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: va‧do

Noun

vado (accusative singular vadon, plural vadoj, accusative plural vadojn)

1. mudflat

Derived terms

• vadbirdo

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: và‧do

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vadum.

Noun

vado m (plural vadi)

1. (literary or poetic, obsolete) Alternative form of guado

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vādō, from vādere. Expected *ando from Latin ambulō is obsolete and non-standard.

Verb

vado

1. first-person singular present indicative of andare

   Synonym: vo (literary, regional)

Anagrams

• davo

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wāðō, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-. Cognates include Old English wadan (English wade).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vādō (present infinitive vādere, perfect active vāsī, supine vāsum); third conjugation

1. to go, walk, rush

   Synonyms: ambulō, deambulō, cammīnō, adeō, obeō, pergō, baetō, eō, gradior, cēdō, īnferō

   Vāde mēcum. ― Go with me.

   Vāde retrō, Satanā! ― Get thee behind me, Satan!

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew.16.23:

     Vade post me Satana, scandalum es mihi

     Get behind me, Satan, you are a stumbling-block to me

Usage notes

• In Proto-Romance, this verb's present forms tend to supplant the equivalent forms of eo.
• The supine stem is not used directly, but seen in prefixed forms.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• circumvādō
• ēvādō
• invādō
• pervādō

Descendants

Etymology 2

From vadum (“shoal, ford”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vadō (present infinitive vadāre, perfect active vadāvī, supine vadātum); first conjugation

1. to ford, wade through

Conjugation

Descendants

• French: guéer
• Italian: guadare
• Portuguese: vadear
• Spanish: vadear

Etymology 3

Noun

vadō n

1. dative/ablative singular of vadum (“body of water, stream, shallow”)

References

• “vado”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vado”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vado in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish vado, inherited from Latin vadum (“shallow (n.)”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-. For the retention of the -d-, compare grado (“degree; grade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbado/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: va‧do

Noun

vado m (plural vados)

1. ford

Related terms

Descendants

• vadear

Further reading

• “vado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014