Esperanto

Noun

vado ‎(accusative singular vadon, plural vadoj, accusative plural vadojn)

1. mudflat

Derived terms

• vadbirdo

Italian

Verb

vado

1. first-person singular present tense of andare

Synonyms

• vo

Anagrams

• davo

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wāðō, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-. Cognates include Old English wadan (English wade).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwaː.doː/

Verb

vādō ‎(present infinitive vādere, perfect active vāsī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I go, walk, rush

   Vade mecum.

   Go with me.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ēvādō
• invādō
• pervādō

Descendants

Etymology 2

From vadum ‎(“shoal, ford”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.doː/

Verb

vadō ‎(present infinitive vadāre, perfect active vadāvī, supine vadātum); first conjugation

1. I ford, wade through.

Inflection

Descendants

• French: guéer
• Italian: guadare
• Portuguese: vadear
• Spanish: vadear

References

• vado in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vado in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vado”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vadus, from vadum ‎(“shallow (n.)”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

Noun

vado m ‎(plural vados)

1. ford