dado

See also: Dado and dàdo

English

WOTD – 26 January 2007

An architectural dado in the Taj Mahal.

Dado in carpentry: a through dado (left) and a stopped dado.

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdəʊ

Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

1. (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
2. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

3. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Translations

section of pedestal

lower portion of interior wall

• Spanish: friso (es) m

rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain

• French: embrèvement (fr) m

Verb

dado (third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed)

1. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
2. (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.

Translations

to furnish with a dado

to cut a dado

Derived terms

• dado rail

Further reading

• dado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• odda

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a form *datu of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaðʊ]

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. Equivalent to dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of dato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaðʊ]

Adjective

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. offered

   Synonym: oferecido

2. granted, conceded (given)

   Synonym: concedido

3. given, fixed

   Synonym: determinado

4. friendly, sociable

   Synonyms: afábel, afable

5. generous

   Synonyms: desinteresado, xeneroso

6. prone, inclined

   Synonym: propenso

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. past participle of dar

References

• “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “dado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “dado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “dado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiligaynon

Noun

dadô

1. a young fish

Related terms

• haloán
• haroán

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧do
• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/

Noun

dado

1. (gaming) die; dice

References

• Andrés Carro (1888) Vocabulario ilocano-español: trabajado por varios religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Agustín / coordinado por Predicador Andrés Carro y ultimamente aumentado y corregido por algunos religiosos del mismo orden‎^[1] (in Spanish and Ilocano), Manila: Est. Tipo-Litográfico de M. Pérez

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: dà‧do

Noun

dado m (plural dadi)

1. (gaming) die, dice

   giocare a dadi ― to play dice

2. (by extension) any small cube-shaped object
3. (cooking) stock cube

   minestra di dadi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (engineering) nut (intended to be screwed onto a bolt)

Anagrams

• Addo

Ladino

Noun

dado m (Latin spelling, plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin dātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/

Noun

dado m

1. die
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

• Galician: dado
• Portuguese: dado

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀤𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• ददो (Devanagari script)
• দদো (Bengali script)
• දදො (Sinhalese script)
• ဒဒေါ or ၻၻေႃ (Burmese script)
• ทโท or ทะโท (Thai script)
• ᨴᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
• ທໂທ or ທະໂທ (Lao script)
• ទទោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)

Verb

dado

1. second-person singular imperfect active of dadāti (“to give”)

Portuguese

dado

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/ [ˈda.ðu]

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: da‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) a die

   Alguns jogos utilizam um dado que vai até 100.

   Some games use a die numbered up to 100.

Descendants

• → Malay: dadu
  • Indonesian: dadu
• → Swahili: dadu

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. By surface analysis, dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of data.

Adjective

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. offered

   Synonym: oferecido

2. granted, conceded (given)

   Synonym: concedido

3. given, fixed

   Synonym: determinado

   Em um dado momento.

   At a given moment.

4. friendly, sociable

   Synonym: afável

   Eles são muito dados.

   They are very friendly.

5. prone, inclined

   Synonyms: propenso, inclinado

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (computing, sciences) data; datum (item of information)

   Não encontrei nenhum dado no sistema.

   I did not find any data in the system.

Determiner

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. a given; a particular; a specific

   Em dado momento, os morcegos sairão da caverna.

   The bats will leave the cave in a given moment.

   A família mora em uma dada localidade no vale.

   The family lives in a given location in the valley.

Usage notes

• Optionally used with an article.

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. past participle of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/ [ˈd̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: da‧do

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) a die or dice

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin dātus. See dar.

Participle

dado (feminine dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. past participle of dar

Derived terms

• dado que

 

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish dado (“die”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧do
• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/, [ˈda.do]

Noun

dado

1. die; dice
2. (mechanics) bushing

Related terms

• betubeto