baud

• Baud

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophones: bawd; board, bored (non-rhotic)

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
   • 1985 April 13, Stephanie Poggi, “Queer Hackers”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

     To reach the Backroom Bulletin Board, call (718) 849-6699 with a computer, using either the 300 or 1200 baud setting on the modem.

2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

• Buda, Daub, Duba, abud, daub

• IPA^(key): [ˈbau̯t]

baud m inan

1. baud (unit of rate of data transmission)

• “baud”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “baud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

baud f

1. voice

baud

1. pigeon

Inherited from Old French baud, bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: bau, bauds, baux, beau, beaux (general), bot, bots (except regionally)

baud m (plural bauds)

1. a type of hunting dog

• baudet

Borrowed from English baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

• IPA^(key): /bod/

baud m (plural bauds)

1. baud (unit)

• “baud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

baud

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaud/ [ˈba.ʊt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aud
• Syllabification: baud
• Homophone: baut

Borrowed from English baud, from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

baud (plural baud-baud)

1. (telecommunications) baud: a unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second

baud (plural baud-baud)

1. alternative spelling of baut

• “baud”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

baud

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of by
2. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of byde

baud

1. past tense of by

• bald, balt, baut

From Frankish *bald or similar Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balþaz.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbau̯t/

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)

1. bold; brave
2. cheerful; full of ardour

• abaudir
• embaudir
• esbaudir

• Bourguignon: baud
• Middle French: baud
  • French: baud
• → Italian: baldo
• → Middle English: bawde, baude (noun)
  • English: bawd
• → Sicilian: baudu

• Hyphenation: baud

baud m (plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) baud (a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second)

• “baud”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “baud”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• baul (Sursilvan)
• bòld (Sutsilvan)
• bod (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

From German bald.

baud

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) early

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic bad (“clump, thicket”), itself borrowed from Pictish (cf. Breton bod (“cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket”)); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (similar to Proto-West Germanic *bast (“fiber”), Latin fascis), or otherwise related to Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā (“bud”).^[1]

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad

baud (plural bauds)

1. a thicket, a clump of trees