mondo

See also: mondó, móndo, and mondò

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese 問答 (mondō).

Noun

mondo (plural mondos)

1. (Zen Buddhism) A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

Etymology 2

From the title of the cult 1962 Italian documentary film Mondo cane, Italian for "A Dog's World", from mondo (“world”) and cane (“dog”). The film featured bizarre scenes, leading to English use of mondo as an adverb meaning "very, extremely" in mock-Italian phrases like mondo bizarro.

Adjective

mondo (comparative more mondo, superlative most mondo)

1. (US, slang) Big, large; major, significant.
   • 1997, K. C. Constantine, Family Values, G. K. Hall & Co. (1997), →ISBN, page 80:

     […] I mean, me bein' here has caused us some mondo problems, so I shoulda figured out that not bein' here anymore would cause some more problems — "

   • 2010, Dakota Cassidy, You Dropped a Blonde on Me, Berkley Sensation (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Younger gorgeous woman marries older, rich man, lives her life solely for him while reaping the bennies of mondo moolah only to end up dumped by older rich man for newer, younger model.

   • 2012, Lucienne Diver, Crazy in the Blood, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2012), →ISBN, page 79:

     “You're kidding—you can eat again after that mondo burger you had for lunch?”

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mondo.

Adverb

mondo (not comparable)

1. (US, slang) Very, extremely, really.
   • 1992, Cherie Bennett, Sunset Paradise, Berkley (1992), →ISBN, page 1:

     "This rain is mondo depressing," Sam sighed as she stared out the sliding glass doors that led to the Hewitts' deck.

   • 2001, Margie Lapanja, Food Men Love: All-Time Favorite Recipes from Caesar Salad and Grilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Buns and Apple Pie, Conari Press (2001), →ISBN, page 196:

     This recipe, from someone who really knows her tiramisu, is mondo rich, utterly divine, and simple.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Deaver, Mistress of Justice, Bantam Books (2002), →ISBN, page 93:

     “Hey, this place is mondo cool. Bowie hangs out there. It's so packed you can hardly get in. And they play industrial out of one set of speakers and the Sex Pistols out of the other. I mean in the same room! Like, at a thousand decibels."

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mondo.

Anagrams

• Modon

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Esperanto

Etymology

From French monde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mon.do/

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• Hyphenation: mon‧do

Noun

mondo (accusative singular mondon, plural mondoj, accusative plural mondojn)

1. world (the earth)
   • 2001 February, Georgiev, Evgeni, “Vulkanoj”, in Monato‎^[1] (in Esperanto), ISSN 0772-456X, OCLC 12892852, page 22:

     Ĉi-momente en la mondo estas preskaŭ 600 aktivaj vulkanoj.

     At this moment there are almost 600 active volcanoes in the world.

2. (with "the") human collective existence; existence in general.
   • 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, La Espero, [2]:

     En la mondon venis nova sento

Derived terms

• mondumo (“high society”)
• mondmilito (“world war”)
• mondpotenco (“world power”)
• mondlingvo (“world language”)
• submondo (“underworld”)

Further reading

• mond' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905

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Guaraní

Verb

mondo

1. to send

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Ido

Noun

mondo (plural mondi)

1. world
2. people; society
3. kingdom

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mondo m

1. world
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,

     That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ondo

Noun

mondo m (plural mondi)

1. world
2. people; society
3. kingdom

   mondo vegetale

   vegetable kingdom

Related terms

• mondano
• mondiale

Verb

mondo

1. first-person singular indicative present of mondare

Adjective

mondo (feminine singular monda, masculine plural mondi, feminine plural monde)

1. cleaned (vegetables)
2. peeled (fruit)

Further reading

• mondo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• mondo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmondo/, [ˈmõn̪d̪o]

Etymology 1

From Latin mundus.

Adjective

mondo (feminine singular monda, masculine plural mondos, feminine plural mondas)

1. net, pure

Noun

mondo m (plural mondos)

1. Archaic form of mundo.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

mondo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mondar.

Further reading

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

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Swahili

Noun

mondo (needs class)

1. serval