dado

See also: Dado, Ďaďo, and dàdo

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/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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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.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3:

     Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.

3. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Translations

section of pedestal

lower portion of interior wall

Persian: ازاره (fa) (ezâre) Spanish: friso (es) m

rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain

French: embrèvement (fr) m

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

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)

Central Malay

Alternative forms

• dadau (Manna Serawai)
• dade (Besemah, Ogan)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahdah, from Proto-Austronesian *daSdaS (“chest”).

Noun

dado

1. (Lintang, Talo Serawai) chest

References

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎, Canberra: The Australian National University

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/ [ˈd̪a.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: da‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a form *datu of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum.^[1] Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

Etymology 2

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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “dado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “dado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “dado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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 (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 (plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahdah, from Proto-Austronesian *daSdaS (“chest”); compare Malay dada, Old Javanese ḍaḍa, Malagasy tratra.

Noun

dado

1. chest

References

• Kamus Minangkabau - Indonesia [Minangkabau - Indonesian Dictionary]‎ (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, 1985

Negeri Sembilan Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahdah, from Proto-Austronesian *daSdaS (“chest”).

Noun

dado

1. chest

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 (plural dados)

1. die
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

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

Verb

dado

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

Portuguese

dado

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.du/ [ˈda.ðu]

• 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

   O dado mais comum tem seis lados. ― The most common die has six sides.

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 (currently discussed)

   Synonym: determinado

   em um dado momento ― at a given moment

4. friendly, sociable

   Synonym: afável

   Eles são muito dados. ― They are very friendly.

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 in the system.

2. (in the plural) Ellipsis of dados móveis (“mobile data”).

Determiner

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

1. a given; a particular; a specific

   A família mora em uma dada localidade no vale.

   The family lives in a given location in the valley.

Usage notes

• In the determiner sense, optionally used with an article.

Participle

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

1. past participle of dar

References

• “dado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “dado”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “dado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “dado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “dado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdado/ [ˈd̪a.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• 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.

Preposition

dado

1. given, considering
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 89:

     Es un mito popular. Algunos creen que su origen está relacionado con una formidable cuadrilla de bandidos que hace años tenía su guarida en los famosos Cerrillos de Teno. Dada la difusión que alcanza la leyenda mítica, esta hipótises se inadmisible.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• dado que

Participle

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

1. past participle of dar

Further reading

• “dado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado (“die”), from Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Malay dadu. See also datos and days.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dado (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜇᜓ)

1. die; dice

   Synonym: days

2. (mechanical engineering) bushing

See also

• beto-beto

Further reading

• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 331
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 185