vado

• IPA^(key): [ˈvado]

vado

1. vocative singular of vada

• IPA^(key): /ˈvado/

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: va‧do

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

1. mudflat

• vadbirdo

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: và‧do

Borrowed from Latin vadum.

vado m (plural vadi)

1. (literary or poetic, obsolete) alternative form of guado

• vado in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from Latin vādō, from vādere. Expected *ando from Latin ambulō is obsolete and non-standard. Compare both Sicilian vaju and annu.

vado

1. first-person singular present indicative of andare

   Synonym: vo (literary, regional)

• davo

From Proto-Italic *wāðō, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to advance”). Cognates include Old English wadan (English wade).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.do]

vādō (present infinitive vādere, perfect active vāsī, supine vāsum); third conjugation

1. to go, walk, rush

   Synonyms: ambulō, deambulō, cammīnō, adeō, obeō, pergō, baetō, eō, gradior, cēdō, īnferō, alāre

   Vāde mēcum. ― Go with me.

   Vāde retrō, Satanā! ― Get thee behind me, Satan!

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Matthew.16.23:

     Vade post me Satana, scandalum es mihi

     Get behind me, Satan, you are a stumbling-block to me

• In Late Latin, this verb's present forms tend to supplant monosyllabic forms of eo.
• The supine stem is not used directly, but seen in prefixed forms.

• circumvādō
• ēvādō
• invādō
• pervādō

From vadum (“ford, shoal”) + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.do]

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

1. to ford, wade through

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vadō n

1. dative/ablative singular of vadum (“body of water, stream, shallow”)

• “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
• “vado”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    

Inherited from Old Spanish vado, inherited from Latin vadum (“shallow (n.)”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-. For the retention of the -d-, compare grado (“degree; grade”).

• Rhymes: -ado

• IPA^(key): /ˈbado/ [ˈba.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: va‧do

vado m (plural vados)

1. ford

• vadear

• “vado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025