dado

Meaning

a die or dice

Frequency

Hyphenated as

da‧do

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdado/

Etymology

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.

Cognate with Portuguese

dado

Cognate with Catalan

dau

Cognate with French

dé

New

dar

(transitive) to give, to give out
(transitive) to hand over
(transitive) to hit
(transitive) to emit
(transitive) to produce
(transitive) to perform
(transitive) to consider
(intransitive) to encounter; to find with effort
(transitive) to hit upon
(colloquial,intransitive) to press, activate
(colloquial,transitive) to ruin; mess up
(reflexive) to occur
(reflexive) to grow naturally
(reflexive) to hit
(reflexive) to assume
(informal,reflexive) to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were
(Mexico,reflexive) to surrender
(El-Salvador,reflexive,transitive,vulgar) to fuck (used with third person direct objects only)
(Rioplatense,colloquial,transitive) to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with)
(transitive) to announce, predict