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4-letter words (1 found)

DADO,

3-letter words (6 found)

ADD,ADO,DAD,DOD,ODA,ODD,

2-letter words (4 found)

AD,DA,DO,OD,

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All 4 letters words made out of dado

dado addo ddao ddao addo dado daod adod doad odad aodd oadd ddoa ddoa doda odda doda odda adod daod aodd oadd doad odad

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Definitions and meaning of dado

dado

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

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

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

Derived terms

  • dado rail

Further reading

  • dado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • odda

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/, [ˈd̪a.d̪o]
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Noun

dádo (plural dados, Basahan spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. die (used in board games)

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdaðʊ]

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (gaming) die

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. Equivalent to dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of dato.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdaðʊ]

Adjective

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

  1. offered
    Synonym: oferecido
  2. granted, conceded (given)
    Synonym: concedido
  3. given, fixed
    Synonym: determinado
  4. friendly, sociable
    Synonyms: afábel, afable
  5. generous
    Synonyms: desinteresado, xeneroso
  6. prone, inclined
    Synonym: propenso

Participle

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

  1. past participle of dar

References

  • “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “dado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “dado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “dado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “dado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiligaynon

Noun

dadô

  1. a young fish

Related terms

  • haloán
  • haroán

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/, [ˈdɐ.do]
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Noun

dádo (Kur-itan spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. (gaming) die; dice

References

  • Andrés Carro (1888) Vocabulario ilocano-español: trabajado por varios religiosos del orden de N.P.S. Agustín / coordinado por Predicador Andrés Carro y ultimamente aumentado y corregido por algunos religiosos del mismo orden‎[1] (overall work in Spanish and Ilocano), Manila: Est. Tipo-Litográfico de M. Pérez

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Ladino

Noun

dado m (Latin spelling, plural dados)

  1. (gaming) die

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈda.do/

Noun

dado m

  1. die
    • 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

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

dado

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -adu
  • Hyphenation: da‧do

Etymology 1

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

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

  1. (gaming) a die
Descendants
  • → Malay: dadu
    • Indonesian: dadu
  • → Swahili: dadu

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. By surface analysis, dar +‎ -ado. Doublet of data.

Adjective

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

  1. offered
    Synonym: oferecido
  2. granted, conceded (given)
    Synonym: concedido
  3. given, fixed
    Synonym: determinado
  4. friendly, sociable
    Synonym: afável
  5. prone, inclined
    Synonyms: propenso, inclinado

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

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

Determiner

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

  1. a given; a particular; a specific
Usage notes
  • Optionally used with an article.

Participle

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

  1. past participle of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdado/ [ˈd̪a.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: da‧do

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “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

Inherited from Latin dātus. See dar.

Participle

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

  1. past participle of dar
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “dado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado (“die”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdado/, [ˈda.do]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: da‧do

Noun

dado (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

  1. die; dice
  2. (mechanics) bushing

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