ledo

From German Leder and English leather.

• IPA^(key): /ˈledo/

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• Rhymes: -edo
• Hyphenation: le‧do

ledo (accusative singular ledon, plural ledoj, accusative plural ledojn)

1. leather

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Portuguese ledo, Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleðo̝/, /ˈlɛðo̝/

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy, joyful
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 120:

     Agora vaamos ala et façamos o que podermos fazer et nõ aja y outro cõsello mays toda via fazede en guisa que bem çedo de [manãa] seja a villa çercada [per] força ou [per] al ca se nos tomamos Troya, ledos et cõ plazer tornaremos ha nossas terras

     Now, let's we go there and do what we can; we won't have another meeting; do anything to have the town sieged early in the morning, forcibly or in any way; because if we take Troy, we'll return happy and pleased to our lands

   Synonym: alegre

• ledicia
• Ledo
• ledo coma un cuco

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ledo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ledo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ledo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ledo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ledo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: lè‧do

ledo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ledere

• Delo, lode

• lidūna

Possibly from Gaulish.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛ.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.d̪o]
• Homophone: Ledo

ledō m (genitive ledōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ebb (of the sea)

Third-declension noun.

• malina

• "ledo", 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)

From Latin laetus (“happy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.do/

ledo m (plural ledos, feminine leda, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 46 (facsimile):

     […] Mui ledo ſſe tornou / aſſa t[er]ra […]

     […] he returned happy to his homeland […]

• Galician: ledo
• Portuguese: ledo

• lédo (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

• Hyphenation: le‧do

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)

1. happy, joyful

   Synonym: alegre

   Antonym: triste

   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 3rd canto:

     Naquelle engano da alma, ledo & cego, / Que a fortuna não deixa durar muito,

     In that happy and blind illusion of the soul, / Which fortune does not allow to endure for long,

• ledamente
• ledo engano

• lediça, ledice
• Lediça, Letícia

ledo

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of lida