blando

blando

1. first-person singular present indicative of blandar

Borrowed from Latin blandus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblan.do/
• Rhymes: -ando
• Hyphenation: blàn‧do

blando (feminine blanda, masculine plural blandi, feminine plural blande)

1. mild
2. weak
3. bland

• blandamente

• blandizia

• blando in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• blonda

From Old Spanish, from Latin blandus.

blando (feminine blanda)

1. soft, tender

blandō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of blandus

• "blando", 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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈblando/ [ˈblãn̪.d̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ando
• Syllabification: blan‧do

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).

blando (feminine blanda, masculine plural blandos, feminine plural blandas)

1. soft

   Antonym: duro

2. bland
3. flabby
4. cowardly
5. (music) flat
6. (pornography) softcore

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

blando

1. first-person singular present indicative of blandir

• “blando”, 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