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ado
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ado"
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Adjora.
Symbol
ado
See also
English
Etymology
From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈduː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -uː
Noun
ado (uncountable)
- trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
Usage notes
Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such as without further ado or much ado about nothing.
Translations
doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles
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See also
References
- “ado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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Afar
Alternative forms
- (Southern dialects) aadó
Pronunciation
Noun
adó f
- (Northern dialects) generation
- (Northern dialects) era
Declension
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ado”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
Ambonese Malay
Interjection
ado
- expression of annoyance (clarification of this definition is needed)
French
Etymology
Clipping of adolescent.
Pronunciation
Noun
ado m or f by sense (plural ados)
Gun
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
àdó
Japanese
Romanization
ado
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀅𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
- अदो (Devanagari script)
- অদো (Bengali script)
- අදො (Sinhalese script)
- အဒေါ or ဢၻေႃ (Burmese script)
- อโท or อะโท (Thai script)
- ᩋᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
- ອໂທ or ອະໂທ (Lao script)
- អទោ (Khmer script)
- 𑄃𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)
Verb
ado
- second-person singular aorist active of dadāti (“to give”)
Scots
Verb
ado
- alternative form of adae
Noun
- alternative form of adae
References
- “ado”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Sidamo
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Burji ada, Hadiyya ado and Kambaata ado.
Pronunciation
Noun
ado f (uncountable)
References
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007), A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “ado”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department
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Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
ado
- (intransitive) to arrive
Conjugation
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ado
References
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