cardo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cardō (“hinge”). Doublet of kern.
Noun edit
cardo (plural cardines)
- (zoology) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
- (zoology) The hinge of a bivalve shell.
- (Ancient Rome) A street that ran north-south, in an Ancient Roman town or city
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cardo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Verb edit
cardo
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin carduus.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cardo m (plural cardos)
- thistle
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 7:
- mays a terra mays lle criaua cardos et espyñas et outras eruas et cousas danosas que o estoruauam que [nõ] o que el semẽtaua
- but the earth did not produce but thistles and thorns and other plants and weeds that would rather hinder him than that that he sowed
Derived terms edit
- Cardal
- Cardedo
- cardo bravo
- cardo leiteiro
- cardo marítimo
- cardo molar
- cardo santo
- cardo veliño
- Cardosa
- Cardoso
References edit
- “cardo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
cardo
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin carduus (“thistle”).
Noun edit
cardo m (plural cardi)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
cardo
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin cardō (“hinge, astronomical pole”), hence, north-south line.
Noun edit
cardo m (plural cardi)
- the principal north-south street in Roman cities or encampments
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.doː/, [ˈkärd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.do/, [ˈkärd̪o]
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain. Traditionally related to Ancient Greek κράδη (krádē, “twig, spray; swing, crane in the drama”), but unlikely as the concordant sense of swing is metaphorical and likely too recent. Or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”) and so cognate with English har (“hinge”). Compare in any case Old High German scerdo (“hinge”).
Noun edit
cardō m (genitive cardinis); third declension
- hinge (of a door or gate), usually a pivot and socket in Roman times.
- (by extension) a tenon, mortice, or socket
- A street, that ran north-south, in a Roman town or military camp
- (figuratively) turning point, critical moment or action
- (figuratively) the symbolism of the hinge in ancient Roman religion and myth
- (astronomy) a pole
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cardō | cardinēs |
Genitive | cardinis | cardinum |
Dative | cardinī | cardinibus |
Accusative | cardinem | cardinēs |
Ablative | cardine | cardinibus |
Vocative | cardō | cardinēs |
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Descendants edit
See also edit
- decumanus (“east-west street”)
Etymology 2 edit
Variant form of carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”); see also cardus, cardunculus.
Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary.
Noun edit
cardō m (genitive cardōnis or cardinis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- thistle or some similar plant
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (two different stems).
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cardo 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)
- cardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
- the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
- “cardo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cardo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cardo m (plural cardos)
- thistle (plant)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
cardo
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
cardo m (plural cardos)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cardo
Further reading edit
- “cardo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014