mondo
Gĩkũyũ edit
Mondo = "pocket", "bag"
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Noun edit
mondo (plural mondos)
Etymology 2 edit
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.[1]
Adjective edit
mondo (comparative more mondo, superlative most mondo)
- (US, slang) Big, large; major, significant.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.
Adverb edit
mondo (not comparable)
- (US, slang) Very, extremely, really.
- 2002, Jeffrey Deaver, Mistress of Justice, Bantam Books, published 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 quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.
Usage notes edit
These days, mostly associated as a certain sort of "cheesy" dated 90s youth slang. Modern usage almost inherently seen as tongue-in-cheek. Compare tubular, far-out, etc.
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Further reading edit
- mondo (scripture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology edit
From French monde, from Late Latin mundus (“world”).
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Noun edit
mondo (accusative singular mondon, plural mondoj, accusative plural mondojn)
- world (the earth)
- 2001 February, Evgeni Georgiev, “Vulkanoj”, in Monato[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2019, page 22:
- Ĉi-momente en la mondo estas preskaŭ 600 aktivaj vulkanoj.
- At this moment there are almost 600 active volcanoes in the world.
- (with "the") human collective existence; existence in general.
- 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, La Espero[3]:
- En la mondon venis nova sento
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
- mondlingvo (“world language”)
- mondmilito (“world war”)
- mondpotenco (“world power”)
- mondumo (“high society”)
- submondo (“underworld”)
Further reading edit
- mond' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905
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Borrowed from Old French monde.
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References edit
- monde in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- mondo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŭndus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 218
Guaraní edit
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mondo
- to send
Ido edit
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mondo (plural mondi)
Istriot edit
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mondo m
- 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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mondo m (plural mondi)
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- → English: mondo
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mondo
Adjective edit
mondo (feminine monda, masculine plural mondi, feminine plural monde)
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mondo
Sambali edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish mundo (“world”).
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mondo
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mondo (feminine monda, masculine plural mondos, feminine plural mondas)
- net, pure
- Synonyms: puro, inadulterado
Derived terms edit
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mondo m (plural mondos)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
mondo
Further reading edit
- “mondo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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mondo (n class, plural mondo)
- serval (medium-sized African wild cat)
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mondo