spado

English

Etymology

From Latin spadō, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

spado (plural spados or spadoes or spadones)

1. (now rare) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:

     an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]

Anagrams

• APODs, apods

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspado]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: spa‧do

Noun

spado (accusative singular spadon, plural spadoj, accusative plural spadojn)

1. rapier, epee

Derived terms

• spadofiŝo

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English spade.

Noun

spado (plural spadi)

1. spade

Derived terms

• spadagar (“to spade”)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπάδων (spádōn).

Noun

spadō m (genitive spadōnis); third declension

1. eunuch

   Synonym: eunūchus

   • Martialis, Epigrammata 5.41.1:

     Spadōne cum sīs ēvirātior flūxō, [...]

2. an impotent person

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	spadō	spadōnēs
genitive	spadōnis	spadōnum
dative	spadōnī	spadōnibus
accusative	spadōnem	spadōnēs
ablative	spadōne	spadōnibus
vocative	spadō	spadōnēs

References

• “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spado”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spado 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)
• spado in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.