ledo

See also: Ledo, lédo, and lědo

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Etymology

From German Leder and English leather.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈledo]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -edo
• Hyphenation: le‧do

Noun

ledo (accusative singular ledon, plural ledoj, accusative plural ledojn)

1. leather

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Portuguese ledo, Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleðo̝/, /ˈlɛðo̝/

Adjective

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy, joyful
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 120:

     Agora vaamos ala et façamos o que podermos fazer et nõ aja y outro cõsello mays toda via fazede en guisa que bem çedo de [manãa] seja a villa çercada [per] força ou [per] al ca se nos tomamos Troya, ledos et cõ plazer tornaremos ha nossas terras

     Now, let's we go there and do what we can; we won't have another meeting; do anything to have the town sieged early in the morning, forcibly or in any way; because if we take Troy, we'll return happy and pleased to our lands

   Synonym: alegre

Related terms

• ledicia
• Ledo
• ledo coma un cuco

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: lè‧do

Verb

ledo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ledere

Anagrams

• Delo, lode

Latin

Alternative forms

• lidūna

Etymology

Possibly from Gaulish.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈle.doː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.do/, [ˈlɛːd̪o]
• Homophone: Ledo

Noun

ledō m (genitive ledōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ebb (of the sea)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ledō	ledōnēs
genitive	ledōnis	ledōnum
dative	ledōnī	ledōnibus
accusative	ledōnem	ledōnēs
ablative	ledōne	ledōnibus
vocative	ledō	ledōnēs

Related terms

• Ledo
• Ledus

See also

• malina

References

• "ledo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

1. Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “ledo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 779

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin laetus (“happy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.do/

Adjective

ledo m (plural ledos, feminine leda, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 46 (facsimile):

     […] Mui ledo ſſe tornou / aſſa t[er]ra […]

     […] he returned happy to his homeland […]

Descendants

• Galician: ledo
• Portuguese: ledo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• lédo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈle.du/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈle.du/ [ˈle.ðu], (archaic) /ˈlɛ.du/ [ˈlɛ.ðu]

• Hyphenation: le‧do

Adjective

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy, joyful

   Synonym: alegre

   Antonym: triste

   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 3rd canto:

     Naquelle engano da alma, ledo & cego, / Que a fortuna não deixa durar muito,

     In that happy and blind illusion of the soul, / Which fortune does not allow to endure for long,

Derived terms

• ledamente
• ledo engano

Related terms

• lediça, ledice
• Lediça, Letícia

Swedish

Verb

ledo

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of lida