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condo

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English

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Etymology

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Shortening of condominium.

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Noun

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condo (plural condos)

  1. (US, Canada, Philippines) Clipping of condominium.

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condo m (plural condos)

  1. (Quebec) condominium

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From con- (together) or -dō (to put). Compare conficiō (to prepare), from the same root.

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    Verb

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    condō (present infinitive condere, perfect active condidī, supine conditum); third conjugation

    1. to put together
    2. to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct
      Synonyms: aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, compōnō, fundō, cōnstituō, statuō, exstruō, mōlior
    3. to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; inter, bury
    4. to conceal, hide, secret, suppress, withdraw
      Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, cooperiō, tegō, abscondō, comprimō, prōtegō, abdō, premō, opprimō, mergō
      Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.176–177:
        Parva metū prīmō, mox sēsē attollit in aurās,
        ingrediturque solō, et caput inter nūbila condit.
        [Rumor is] slight at first [because of] fear, [but] soon raises herself sky-high, and strides on the ground, and hides her head among the clouds.
    5. (figuratively) to thrust or strike in deep, plunge
    6. (figuratively) to bring to an end, conclude
      Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, conclūdō, dēfungor, absolvō, agō, efficiō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, impleō, exsequor, fungor, perpetrō, gerō, peragō, nāvō, trānsigō, claudō, inclūdō

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    • Spanish: condir (obsolete)

    References

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    • condo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • condo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "condo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • condo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
      • to write poetry: poema condere, facere, componere
      • after having duly taken the auspices: auspicato (rem gerere, urbem condere)
      • to build, found a city: oppidum constituere, condere
      • to harvest crops: fructus condere (N. D. 2. 62. 156)
      • to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
      • to complete the censorship (by certain formal purificatory ceremonies = lustro faciendo): lustrum condere (Liv. 1. 44. 2)

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    Verb

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    condo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of condir

    Spanish

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    Verb

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    condo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of condir