lodo – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of lodo

Noun: lodo
Gender: m Hyphenation: lò‧do
Singular mlodo
Plural mlodi

Sample Sentences

  • Ed elli a me: « Questo misero modo
  • tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
  • che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo. (And he to me: "This miserable way is held by the wretched souls of those who lived without infamy and without praise.") [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 34–36; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • giuoco pericoloso, di niuno utile, di molta spesa, atta ad acquistarsi più invidia che amistà, più biasimo che lodo (A dangerous game, good for nothing, highly expensive, more fit to attract envy than friendship, more blame than praise) [15ᵗʰ c., Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia, collected in Opere volgari, page 160:]
  • […] la qual cosa rende grande pregio e grande lodo a’ vincitori. ([…] which gives great merit and great praise to the winners.) [1846, Claudio Dalmazzo, “Libro quinto”, in La prima deca di Tito Livio [Titus Livius' First Decade], translation of Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy, page 39:]

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, Late Latin laudum, from Latin laudō. See: Latin Nouns 'laudō'.

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