dolo

Possibly a blend of down low or modelled on solo.^[1] It can also be an example of so called dunn lingo.

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.loʊ/

dolo (comparative more dolo, superlative most dolo)

1. (African-American Vernacular, New York, hip-hop slang) alone, by oneself, without a companion
   • 1996, Nas, “Take It in Blood”, in It Was Written‎^[8]:

     I, dolo, challenge any team or solo
     You must be buggin' out — new to my shit, home on a furlough

   • 1997, Tupac Shakur, “Fuck All Y’all”, in R U Still Down? (Remember Me)‎^[9]:

     What's goin' on in the ghetto? Still struggle and strive
     I still roll with the heater, smokin' Chocolate Thai
     In '94, I'll be goin' solo
     Too many problems of my own so I'm rollin' dolo, fuck all y'all

dolo

1. (intransitive) to creep, to crawl (used to refer to creatures without legs)

dolo (dolo-va)

1. (transitive) to creep to, on or over

The verbs dolo and dolova should only be used for creatures without legs such as snakes, worms and eels. For creatures with legs, one should use yaqa (especially for insects and bugs that do have legs) and qasi (for other creatures with legs).

Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: dò‧lo

dolo m (plural doli)

1. (law) malice
2. fraud, deceit

• doloso

• lodo, lodò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɔ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔː.lo]

Uncertain. Ultimately from the root Proto-Indo-European *delh₁-. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *dēlaō, from Proto-Indo-European *délh₁-yeti.^[1] Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-Italic *dolaō, Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁-yé-ti.^[2] It has also been interpreted as a denominative to an otherwise unattested o-grade noun from the same root.^[3]

dolō (present infinitive dolāre, perfect active dolāvī, supine dolātum); first conjugation

1. to hew, chop into shape
2. to fashion, devise

• Calabrian: dulare
• Italian: dolare
• Romanian: dura
• Spanish: dolar
• → French: doler

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόλων (dólōn), from δόλος (dólos).

• dolōn

dolō m (genitive dolōnis); third declension

1. a dagger

   Synonym: pūgiō

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Claudi 13:

     E plebe homo nocte media iuxta cubiculum eius cum pugione deprehensus est; reperti et equestris ordinis duo in publico cum dolone ac venatorio cultro praestolantes, alter ut egressum theatro, alter ut sacrificantem apud Martis aedem adoreretur.

     A plebeian man was apprehended at midnight right next to his [Claudius'] bed; two other men of equestrian family were found waiting for him, one armed with a dagger and ready to stab him leaving the theater, the other one, wielding a huntsman's knife, to attack him as he would be sacrificing at the altar of Mars.

2. (unclear) a swordstick or steel-pointed pole
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.664-665:

     Pila manu saevosque gerunt in bella dolones
     et tereti pugnant mucrone veruque Sabello.

     They [comites Aventini] wield javelins and fierce swordsticks, and fight as well with smooth sword as with the Sicilian veru [of unclear meaning].

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dolō m

1. dative/ablative singular of dolus

• “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dolo", 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)
• dolo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dolo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dolo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• dilo, dlo, lo

Derived from French de l' (“some”) + French eau (“water”), with the partitive article re-analyzed as part of the noun.

• IPA^(key): /doˈlo/
• Rhymes: -o

dolo

1. water
2. (a) body of water
3. (a) tear (a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation)

• larozé, séren (“dew”)

• Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole (1998), →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.lɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: do‧lo

dolo f

1. vocative singular of dola

Learned borrowing from Latin dolus.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: do‧lo

dolo m (plural dolos)

1. deceit, trick, fraud
2. (law) intentional transgression

• doloso

Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdolo/ [ˈd̪o.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: do‧lo

dolo m (plural dolos)

1. fraud
2. (law) malice

• “dolo”, 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

dolo

1. water
   • Philip Baker,From Contact to Creole and Beyond (1995), page 139:

     dolo sa le sal

     the water which is dirty

   Synonym: delo

From Mandarin 朵落 (duǒluò).

• IPA^(key): [tolo]

dolo

1. head (body part)

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN