ludo
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ludo (plural ludos)
- Alternative letter-case form of Ludo.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ludo (accusative singular ludon, plural ludoj, accusative plural ludojn)
Derived terms
[edit]Ido
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ludo (plural ludi)
Italian
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ludo m (plural ludi)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫuː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈluː.d̪o]
Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Italic *loidō, from an o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to play”), perhaps reduplicated present *lé-loyd-ti ~ *lé-lid-n̥ti through dissimilation.[1][2][3][4] Cognate with Ancient Greek λίζω (lízō, “to play”).
Verb
[edit]lūdō (present infinitive lūdere, perfect active lūsī, supine lūsum); third conjugation
- to play (a game or sport)
- Synonym: iocor
- to frolic, behave playfully
- to practice, amuse oneself with
- to sport, play amorously
- to mock, mimic
- to tease, ridicule
- to deceive, delude, trick, take advantage of
- 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 605–607:
- Omnēs, quibus rēs sunt minus secundae, magis sunt nesciō quō modō / suspitiōsī: ad contumēliam omnia accipiunt magis; / propter suam inpotentiam sē semper crēdunt lūdier.
- All those people whose affairs are unsuccessful are in some way — I know not how — more suspicious: they take everything more readily as an insult. Because of their own disadvantage, they always think they’re being taken advantage of.
(Archaic passive infinitive, equivalent to lūdī.)
- All those people whose affairs are unsuccessful are in some way — I know not how — more suspicious: they take everything more readily as an insult. Because of their own disadvantage, they always think they’re being taken advantage of.
- Omnēs, quibus rēs sunt minus secundae, magis sunt nesciō quō modō / suspitiōsī: ad contumēliam omnia accipiunt magis; / propter suam inpotentiam sē semper crēdunt lūdier.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of lūdō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: Ludo, ludicrous
- Esperanto: ludi
- Italian: ludere, ludico
- Spanish: lúdico, luir, ludir
- French: ludique
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “666”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 666
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lūdus, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 368
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “lei̯d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 402–403
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lūdō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 350–351
Further reading
[edit]- “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ludo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make sport of, rally a person: ludere, irridere, deridere aliquem
- (ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici
- (ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi
- (ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia
- (ambiguous) gymnastic contests: ludi gymnici
- to make sport of, rally a person: ludere, irridere, deridere aliquem
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]lūdō m
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]lȗdo (Cyrillic spelling лу̑до)
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ludo m (uncountable)
- (South America) Ludo
- Synonym: parchís
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]ludo
Further reading
[edit]- “ludo”, 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
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