cardo

See also: cardò and cardó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cardo (“hinge”)

Noun

cardo (plural cardines)

  1. (zoology) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects
  2. (zoology) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cardo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ardo

Etymology 1

From Latin carduus (“thistle”).

Noun

cardo m (plural cardi)

  1. thistle
  2. teasel
  3. implement for carding wool with thistle-like bristles, card
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Verb

cardo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cardare

Etymology 2

From Latin cardō (“hinge, astronomical pole”), hence, north-south line.

Noun

cardo m (plural cardi)

  1. The principal north-south street in Roman cities or encampments

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Traditionally related to κράδη (krádē, “twig, spray; swing, crane in the drama”), but unlikely as the concordant sense of swing is metaphorical and likely too recent. Or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”) and so cognate with English har (“hinge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cardō m (genitive cardinis); third declension

  1. hinge (of a door or gate), usually a pivot and socket in Roman times.
  2. (by extension) a tenon, mortice, or socket
  3. (figuratively) turning point, critical moment or action
  4. (astronomy) a pole

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cardō cardinēs
genitive cardinis cardinum
dative cardinī cardinibus
accusative cardinem cardinēs
ablative cardine cardinibus
vocative cardō cardinēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • cardo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cardo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cardo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • cardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
  • cardo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cardo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin carduus.

Noun

cardo m (plural cardos)

  1. thistle (plant)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin carduus.

Noun

cardo m (plural cardos)

  1. thistle
  2. cardoon
  3. (Spain) prickly customer
  4. (Spain) butt ugly person

Verb

cardo

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cardar.
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