Noun: dedo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: de‧do
| Singular m | dedo |
| Plural m | dedos |
Sample Sentences
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El pan, el queso y la fruta con dos dedos comerás; con tres también podrás; mas con cuatro ya es cosa bruta. (Bread, cheese and fruit with two fingers thou shalt eat; with three thou also mayest; but with four it is the stuff of brutes already.)
Nouns inflected like dedo
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish dedo, from Latin digitus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, point out, pronounce solemnly”). Doublet of dígito, which was borrowed rather than inherited. Cognate with Catalan dit, Galician and Portuguese dedo, French doigt, Italian dito, Romanian deget. See: Latin Nouns '
digitus', Catalan Nouns '
dit', French Nouns '
doigt', Italian Nouns '
dito', Romanian Nouns '
deget'.
Verbs referencing "dedo"
Galician Nouns
dedo, Portuguese Nouns
dedo, Catalan Nouns
dit, Asturian Nouns
deu, Italian Nouns
deto.
Translations