nado

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nado"

Asturian

Verb

nado

1. first-person singular present indicative of nadar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈna.ðu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈna.ðo]

Verb

nado

1. first-person singular present indicative of nadar

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnado/ [ˈna.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: na‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nado (“born”), from Latin nātus (“born”), perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”).

Adjective

nado (feminine nada, masculine plural nados, feminine plural nadas)

1. born

Etymology 2

Back-formation from nadar.

Noun

nado m (plural nados)

1. swim, swimming

Derived terms

• a nado (“swimming”)

Etymology 3

Verb

nado

1. first-person singular present indicative of nadar

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

nado

1. Rōmaji transcription of など

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nato, from Proto-Uralic *nataw.

Noun

nado

1. sister-in-law

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“to be born”).

Participle

nado m (plural nados, feminine nada, feminine plural nadas)

1. past participle of nacer

Related terms

• irmão (through PIE)
• nacença
• nacer
• nada
• Natal
• natura
• natural
• natureza

Descendants

• Galician: nado
• Portuguese: nado

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "nado, nada₁"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.du/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.du/ [ˈna.ðu]

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: na‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nado (“born”), from Latin nātus (“born”), perfect active participle of nāscor (“to be born”).

Adjective

nado (feminine nada, masculine plural nados, feminine plural nadas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) born (given birth to)

   Synonyms: nascido, nato

Derived terms

• nado-morto

Participle

nado (feminine nada, masculine plural nados, feminine plural nadas)

1. (dated) past participle of nascer

Etymology 2

Deverbal from nadar.

Noun

nado m (plural nados)

1. swim (the act or an instance of swimming)

   Synonym: (instance) nadada

2. swimming (the sport of swimming)

   Synonym: natação

3. (swimming, chiefly Brazil) stroke (a particular style of swimming)

   Synonym: (Portugal) estilo

   nado de costas ― backstroke

Derived terms

• nado borboleta
• nado crawl
• nado de bruços
• nado de cachorrinho
• nado de costas
• nado de peito
• nado livre
• nado mariposa
• nado sincronizado

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nado

1. first-person singular present indicative of nadar

Further reading

• “nado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “nado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

nado (Cyrillic spelling надо)

1. vocative singular of nada

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnadɔ]

Preposition

nado [with instrumental]

1. alternative form of nad

Usage notes

• Used only with the pronoun mňa (“me”).

Further reading

• “nado”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnado/ [ˈna.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: na‧do

Etymology 1

Deverbal from nadar.

Noun

nado m (plural nados)

1. swimming

   Synonym: natación

Derived terms

• a nado

Etymology 2

Verb

nado

1. first-person singular present indicative of nadar

Further reading

• “nado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nato.

Noun

nado

1. sister-in-law

Inflection

Inflection of nado (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	nado
genitive sing.	nadon
partitive sing.	nadod
partitive plur.	nadoid
	singular	plural
nominative	nado	nadod
accusative	nadon	nadod
genitive	nadon	nadoiden
partitive	nadod	nadoid
essive-instructive	nadon	nadoin
translative	nadoks	nadoikš
inessive	nados	nadoiš
elative	nadospäi	nadoišpäi
illative	nadoho	nadoihe
adessive	nadol	nadoil
ablative	nadolpäi	nadoilpäi
allative	nadole	nadoile
abessive	nadota	nadoita
comitative	nadonke	nadoidenke
prolative	nadodme	nadoidme
approximative I	nadonno	nadoidenno
approximative II	nadonnoks	nadoidennoks
egressive	nadonnopäi	nadoidennopäi
terminative I	nadohosai	nadoihesai
terminative II	nadolesai	nadoilesai
terminative III	nadossai	—
additive I	nadohopäi	nadoihepäi
additive II	nadolepäi	nadoilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “золовка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika