dado

See also: Dado, Ďaďo, and dàdo

English

WOTD – 26 January 2007

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪdoʊ/

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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: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, 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