English

Noun

spado ‎(plural spadoes or spadones)

1. (now rare) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9:

     an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art [...].

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from English spade.

Noun

spado (plural spadi)

1. spade

Derived terms

• spadagar ‎(“to spade”)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπάδων ‎(spádōn).

Noun

spadō m ‎(genitive spadōnis); third declension

1. eunuch
2. an impotent person

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• spado in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spado in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SPADO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spado”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.