ado

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ado"

English

Etymology

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈduː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

ado (uncountable)

1. trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
     It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
     But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
     What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
     I am to learn;
     And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
     That I have much ado to know myself.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”

Usage notes

Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.

Translations

doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles

• Czech: povyk (cs) m, zdržování n, rotyka (cs) f
• Dutch: gedoe (nl) n
• Finnish: meteli (fi), mekkala (fi), älämölö (fi)
• French: cérémonies (fr) f pl, manières (fr) f pl, bruit (fr) m, histoire (fr) f, foin (fr) m
• German: Getue (de) n
• Hungarian: hűhó (hu)
• Maori: utiuti
• Plautdietsch: Kracheel m, Puhu m
• Portuguese: confusão (pt), barulho (pt)
• Russian: затруднение (ru) n (zatrudnenije)
• Slovak: hurhaj m, zdržiavanie n
• Turkish: gürültü (tr), patırtı (tr), telaş (tr), yaygara (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Getöse (de) n, ^{(please verify)} Lärm (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Mühe (de) f

See also

• à deux
• adieu

References

• “ado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• dao, oda, Oda, Dao, oad, DAO, AOD, DOA, DAo, ODA

Afar

Alternative forms

• (Southern dialects) aadó

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdo/ [ʔʌˈdɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧do

Noun

adó f 

1. (Northern dialects) generation
2. (Northern dialects) era

Declension

Declension of adó

absolutive adó predicative adó subjective adó genitive adó Postpositioned forms l-case adól k-case adók t-case adót h-case adóh

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Ambonese Malay

Lemma

ado

1. expression of annoyance

French

Etymology

Clipping of adolescent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ado m or f by sense (plural ados)

1. (colloquial) teen, teenager

Gun

Etymology

Cognate with Saxwe Gbe ado, Adja edu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.dó/

Noun

àdó

1. wall

Japanese

Romanization

ado

1. Rōmaji transcription of あど

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀅𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• अदो (Devanagari script)
• অদো (Bengali script)
• අදො (Sinhalese script)
• အဒေါ or ဢၻေႃ (Burmese script)
• อโท or อะโท (Thai script)
• ᩋᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
• ອໂທ or ອະໂທ (Lao script)
• អទោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)

Verb

ado

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

Scots

Verb

ado

1. Alternative form of adae

Noun

ado (plural adoes or ado's)

1. Alternative form of adae

References

• “ado”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Sidamo

Ado.

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji ada, Hadiyya ado and Kambaata ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈado/
• Hyphenation: a‧do

Noun

ado f (uncountable)

1. milk

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “ado”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈ(ʔ)a.do]

Verb

ado

1. (intransitive) to arrive

Conjugation

Conjugation of ado

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toado	foado	miado
2nd person		noado	niado
3rd person	masculine	oado	iado yoado (archaic)
	feminine	moado
	neuter	iado

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ado
Brazilian standard	ado
New Tribes	ado

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aɾ̠o]

Noun

ado

1. rice

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ado”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon