spado
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spadō, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek.
Noun
spado (plural spadoes or spadones)
- (now rare) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:
- an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:
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Pronunciation
Noun
spado (accusative singular spadon, plural spadoj, accusative plural spadojn)
Derived terms
Ido
Etymology
Noun
spado (plural spadi)
Derived terms
- spadagar (“to spade”)
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπάδων (spádōn).
Noun
spadō m (genitive spadōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | spadō | spadōnēs |
Genitive | spadōnis | spadōnum |
Dative | spadōnī | spadōnibus |
Accusative | spadōnem | spadōnēs |
Ablative | spadōne | spadōnibus |
Vocative | spadō | spadōnēs |
References
- “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spado in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- spado in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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