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 m (feminine singular 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

• “ledo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ledo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ledo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ledo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ledo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

ledo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ledere

• Delo, lode

• lidūna

Possibly from Gaulish[1].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.doː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.do/, [ˈlɛːd̪o]

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
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 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. archaic plural form of led, past tense of lida.