spado

From Latin spadō, from Ancient Greek.

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 […]

• APODs, apods

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

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

1. rapier, epee

• spadofiŝo

Borrowed from English spade.

spado (plural spadi)

1. spade

• spadagar (“to spade”)

From Ancient Greek σπάδων (spádōn).

spadō m (genitive spadōnis); third declension

1. eunuch

   Synonym: eunūchus

   • Martialis, Epigrammata 5.41.1:

     Spadōne cum sīs ēvirātior flūxō, [...]

2. an impotent person

Third-declension noun.

• “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.