ludo

ludo (plural ludos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ludo.

• Loud, loud, ould

From ludi (“to play”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈludo/

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: lu‧do

ludo (accusative singular ludon, plural ludoj, accusative plural ludojn)

1. game

From ludar (“to play”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈludo/
• Hyphenation: lu‧do

ludo (plural ludi)

1. playing, game
2. gambling

   Synonym: ludrisko

From Latin lūdus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: lù‧do

ludo m (plural ludi)

1. game, sport
2. pastime

• duol

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.d̪o]

From Proto-Italic *loidō, from an o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to play”), perhaps reduplicated present *lé-loyd-ti ~ *lé-lid-n̥ti through dissimilation.^[1][2][3][4] Cognate with Ancient Greek λίζω (lízō, “to play”).

lūdō (present infinitive lūdere, perfect active lūsī, supine lūsum); third conjugation

1. to play (a game or sport)

   Synonym: iocor

2. to frolic, behave playfully
3. to practice, amuse oneself with
4. to sport, play amorously
5. to mock, mimic
6. to tease, ridicule
7. to deceive, delude, trick, take advantage of
   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 605–607:

     Omnēs, quibus rēs sunt minus secundae, magis sunt nesciō quō modō / suspitiōsī: ad contumēliam omnia accipiunt magis; / propter suam inpotentiam sē semper crēdunt lūdier.

     All those people whose affairs are unsuccessful are in some way — I know not how — more suspicious: they take everything more readily as an insult. Because of their own disadvantage, they always think they’re being taken advantage of.
     (Archaic passive infinitive, equivalent to lūdī.)

• English: Ludo, ludicrous
• Esperanto: ludi
• Italian: ludere, ludico
• Spanish: lúdico, luir, ludir
• French: ludique

• “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ludo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make sport of, rally a person: ludere, irridere, deridere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici
    
  • (ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi
    
  • (ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia
    
  • (ambiguous) gymnastic contests: ludi gymnici
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lūdō m

1. dative/ablative singular of lūdus

• IPA^(key): /lûːdo/
• Hyphenation: lu‧do

lȗdo (Cyrillic spelling лу̑до)

1. crazily, insanely

• ludnica
• lud

• IPA^(key): /ˈludo/ [ˈlu.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: lu‧do

ludo m (uncountable)

1. (South America) Ludo

   Synonym: parchís

ludo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ludir

• “ludo”, 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