dado

See also: Dado

English

WOTD – 26 January 2007

An architectural dado in the Taj Mahal.

Dado in carpentry: a through dado (left) and a stopped dado.

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdəʊ

Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

1. (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
2. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
3. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Translations

section of pedestal

lower portion of interior wall

groove in a tongue and groove board

Verb

dado (third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed)

1. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
2. (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.

Translations

to furnish with a dado

to cut a dado

Derived terms

• dado rail

Further reading

• dado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• odda

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese dado, from Latin dātus.

Verb

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of dar

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Noun

dadô

1. a young fish

Related terms

• haloán
• haroán

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Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʾaʿdād, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/
• Hyphenation: dà‧do
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

dado m (plural dadi)

1. (gaming) die, dice

   giocare a dadi ― to play dice

2. (by extension) any small cube-shaped object
3. (cooking) stock cube

   minestra di dadi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (engineering) nut (intended to be screwed onto a bolt)

Anagrams

• Addo

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Ladino

Noun

dado m (Latin spelling, plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʾaʿdād, “numbers”), or from Latin dātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/

Noun

dado m

1. die
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

• Galician: dado
• Portuguese: dado

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀤𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• ददो (Devanagari script)
• দদো (Bengali script)
• දදො (Sinhalese script)
• ဒဒေါ (Burmese script)
• ทโท or ทะโท (Thai script)
• ᨴᨴᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ທໂທ or ທະໂທ (Lao script)
• ទទោ (Khmer script)

Verb

dado

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

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Portuguese

dado

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ðu/
• Hyphenation: da‧do
• Rhymes: -adu

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʾaʿdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) A die.

   Alguns jogos utilizam um dado que vai até 100.

   Some games use a die numbered up to 100.

Descendants

• → Malay: dadu
  • Indonesian: dadu

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. See dar.

Adjective

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas, comparable)

1. offered

   Synonym: oferecido

2. granted, conceded (given)

   Synonym: concedido

3. given, fixed

   Em um dado momento.

   At a given moment.

   Synonym: determinado

4. friendly, sociable

   Eles são muito dados.

   They are very friendly.

   Synonym: afável

5. prone, inclined

   Synonyms: propenso, inclinado

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (computing, sciences) data; datum (item of information)

   Não encontrei nenhum dado no sistema.

   I did not find any data from the system.

Pronoun

dado m (plural dados, feminine dada, feminine plural dadas)

1. a given; a particular; a specific

   Em dado momento, os morcegos sairão da caverna.

   The bats will leave the cave in a given moment.

   A família mora em uma dada localidade no vale.

   The family lives in a given location in the valley.

Usage notes

Optionally used with an article.

Verb

dado (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of dar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/, [ˈd̪aðo]
• Hyphenation: da‧do

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد‎ (ʾaʿdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) A die or dice.

Etymology 2

From Latin dātus. See dar.

Verb

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of dar.

Derived terms

• dado que