Waldo

A play on the US name of the children's book series Where's Waldo?.^[1]

Waldo m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lasaeidae – small marine clams.

• Sometimes placed in families Galeommatidae or Montacutidae, both also in superfamily Galeommatoidea

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Bivalvia – class; Autobranchia – subclass; Heteroconchia – superorder; Venerida – order; Galeommatoidea – superfamily; Lasaeidae – family

• (genus): Waldo parasiticus - type species; see Waldo at World Register of Marine Species for others

• Waldo (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Waldo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Waldo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Waldo at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Waldo at World Register of Marine Species

• Waldeve, Waldef
• Waltheof (obsolete or historical)

English surname, from the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle."^[1][2] Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). Compare Walthall, Waldie.

Waldo

1. A male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.
   • 2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 217:

     He was our first baby, born September 4, 1939, our only boy. Named Waldo after a kind of bakin powder I liked. 'Waldo's Cream Powder.'

2. A surname transferred from the given name.

• Waldo County

• Waldo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• woald

Borrowed from English Waldo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwaldo/ [ˈwal.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -aldo
• Syllabification: Wal‧do

Waldo (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜎ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. a male given name from English