dano

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *danaw, from Proto-Austronesian *danaw (“lake”).

• IPA^(key): /danɔ/

dano

1. lake

Ultimately from Old Norse danir (“the Danes”), from Proto-Germanic *daniz (“Dane”); compare Danish daner.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdano/

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: da‧no

dano (accusative singular danon, plural danoj, accusative plural danojn)

1. a Dane

• dana (“Danish”)
• Danio, Danlando, Danujo (“Denmark”)

dano

1. archaic form of dana (“therefore”)

Inherited from Latin damnum, from Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm.

Cognate Old Spanish danno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdano/
• Hyphenation: da‧no

dano m (plural danos)

1. damage; harm; injury
   • 14th century CE, Johan Fernandes de Ardeleiro, compiled by Angelo Colocci, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, published 1526, A mi dizẽ quantos amigos ey (cantiga 1328), lines 8–11:

     Ca eſt eſtoie quantoben eu ey / Nen me digades amigos hy al / Ca e quanteu poder ueer os ſeos / Olhos meu dano ia nũca farey

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Galician: dano
• Portuguese: dano

• dana, daneu, daniu, dono
• dă (abbreviation)

Probably from dí- (“from”) +‎ an- (“away”) +‎ ṡiu (“this”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈdano]

dano (always postpositive)

1. used to indicate that a clause contains an inference from what goes before: then, therefore
2. used to indicate a parallel with what goes before: so also, so too
3. however

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dano.

• Middle Irish: dana

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “danó, dano”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -anɔ
• Syllabification: da‧no

dano

1. impersonal past of dać

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: da‧no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dano, from Latin damnum, from Proto-Italic *dapnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm. The use in games is a semantic loan from English damage.

Cognate with Galician dano and Spanish daño.

• damno (pre-standardization spelling)

dano m (plural danos)

1. damage (an instance or the state of being damaged)

   Synonyms: avaria, estrago

   O casco do navio sofreu dano.

   The ship’s hull suffered some damage.

2. (law) injury (violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests)
   • 1966, Chico Buarque, “A Rita”, in Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Rádio Gravações Especializadas:

     Não levou um tostão / Porque não tinha, não / Mas causou perdas e danos

     She didn't take a buck / Because that I didn't have / But she caused losses and damages

3. (video games, roleplaying games) damage (a measure of how many hitpoints a weapon or unit can deal or take)

   Essa espada tem 20 de dano.

   This sword has 20 damage.

Borrowed from Latin Dani (“Danes”).

dano (feminine dana, masculine plural danos, feminine plural danas, not comparable)

1. Danish (of Denmark)
2. (historical) of the Danes (Germanic tribe of the Danish islands and southern Sweden)

• (Danish): danês, dinamarquês

dano m (plural danos, feminine dana, feminine plural danas)

1. Dane (person from Denmark)

   Synonyms: danês, dinamarquês

2. (historical) Dane (member of the Danes)

• See Thesaurus:germano

• Dinamarca
• dano-

dano

1. first-person singular present indicative of danar