# ledo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From German Leder and English leather.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈledo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -edo
* Hyphenation: le‧do

### Noun

ledo (accusative singular ledon, plural ledoj, accusative plural ledojn)
* leather

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Portuguese ledo, Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleðo̝/, /ˈlɛðo̝/

### Adjective

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)
* happy, joyful
** c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 120:
    Agora vaamos ala et façamos o que podermos fazer et nõ aja y outro cõsello mays toda via fazede en guisa que bem çedo de [manãa] seja a villa çercada [per] força ou [per] al ca se nos tomamos Troya, ledos et cõ plazer tornaremos ha nossas terrasNow, let's we go there and do what we can; we won't have another meeting; do anything to have the town sieged early in the morning, forcibly or in any way; because if we take Troy, we'll return happy and pleased to our lands
    Synonym: alegre

#### Related terms

* ledicia
* Ledo
* ledo coma un cuco

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ledo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ledo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ledo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ledo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ledo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.do/
* Rhymes: -ɛdo
* Hyphenation: lè‧do

### Verb

ledo
* first-person singular present indicative of ledere

### Anagrams

* Delo, lode

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* lidūna

### Etymology

Possibly from Gaulish.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈle.doː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.do/, [ˈlɛːd̪o]
* Homophone: Ledo

### Noun

ledō m (genitive ledōnis); third declension
* (Medieval Latin) ebb (of the sea)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* Ledo
* Ledus

#### See also

* malina

### References

* ledo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “ledo”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 779

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin laetus (“happy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.do/

### Adjective

ledo m (plural ledos, feminine leda, feminine plural ledas)
* happy
** 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 46 (facsimile):
    […] Mui ledo ſſe tornou / aſſa t[er]ra […]
       […] he returned happy to his homeland […]

#### Descendants

* Galician: ledo
* Portuguese: ledo

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* lédo (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ledo (“happy”), from Latin laetus (“happy”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish ledo and Italian lieto.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈle.du/ [ˈle.ðu], (archaic) /ˈlɛ.du/ [ˈlɛ.ðu]
* Hyphenation: le‧do

### Adjective

ledo (feminine leda, masculine plural ledos, feminine plural ledas)
* happy, joyful
    Synonym: alegre
    Antonym: triste
** 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 3rd canto:
    Naquelle engano da alma, ledo & cego, / Que a fortuna não deixa durar muito,In that happy and blind illusion of the soul, / Which fortune does not allow to endure for long,

#### Derived terms

* ledamente
* ledo engano

#### Related terms

* lediça, ledice
* Lediça, Letícia

## Swedish
### Verb

ledo
* (pre-1940) plural past indicative of lida