lodo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lodo, from Latin lutum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlodo/ [ˈlo.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation: lo‧do

lodo m (plural lodos)

1. slime, mud, silt

   Synonym: lama

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lodo”, 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), “lodo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lodo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: lò‧do

From Medieval Latin, Late Latin laudum, from Latin laudō.

lodo m (plural lodi)

1. (obsolete) praise

   Synonyms: (archaic) loda, lode

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 34–36; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed elli a me: « Questo misero modo
     tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
     che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo.

     And he to me: "This miserable way is held by the wretched souls of those who lived without infamy and without praise."

   • 15^th c., Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia‎^[1], collected in Opere volgari, page 160:

     giuoco pericoloso, di niuno utile, di molta spesa, atta ad acquistarsi più invidia che amistà, più biasimo che lodo

     A dangerous game, good for nothing, highly expensive, more fit to attract envy than friendship, more blame than praise

   • 1846, Claudio Dalmazzo, “Libro quinto”, in La prima deca di Tito Livio [Titus Livius' First Decade]‎^[2], translation of Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy, page 39:

     […] la qual cosa rende grande pregio e grande lodo a’ vincitori.

     […] which gives great merit and great praise to the winners.

2. (law) arbitrator’s award

   Synonyms: sentenza, arbitrato

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lodo

1. first-person singular present indicative of lodare

• dolo

From Old Galician-Portuguese lodo, from Latin lutum (“soil, dirt”).

• Rhymes: -odu
• Hyphenation: lo‧do

lodo m (plural lodos)

1. sludge, slime
2. mud
3. silt

• “lodo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “lodo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish lodo, from Latin lutum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlodo/ [ˈlo.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: lo‧do

lodo m (plural lodos)

1. mud; muck; mire

   Synonyms: barro, fango, limo

• “lodo”, 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

From Proto-Finnic *looto.

lodo

1. shallow, shoal
2. sand bank, spit

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “коса, мель, отмель”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika