# tardo
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish tardo (“slow”), from Latin tardus.

### Noun

tardo (plural tardos)
* (archaic) A sloth.
** 1881, Lippincott's magazine: Volume 27:On my last trip to Vera Cruz I procured a pair of black tardos, full-grown and in a normal state of health […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “tardo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* Dorta, Troad, dotar, troad

## Catalan
### Verb

tardo
* first-person singular present indicative of tardar

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɾdo/ [ˈt̪aɾ.ð̞ʊ]
* Rhymes: -aɾdo

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from tardar.

#### Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)
* slow, unhurried, calm
    Synonyms: calmo, pousado, vagaroso
* late, tardy

### Etymology 2

From the same origin that trasno (“goblin”).

#### Noun

tardo m (plural tardos)
* (folklore) nightmare (goblin who plagues people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation)
    Synonym: pesadelo

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

tardo
* first-person singular present indicative of tardar

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tardo”, 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), “tardo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tardo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtar.do/
* Rhymes: -ardo
* Hyphenation: tàr‧do

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tardus.

#### Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardi, feminine plural tarde)
* slow, sluggard, dull, slow-witted, dull-witted
* late, tardy

##### Derived terms

* tardamente

##### Related terms

* tardare
* tarde
* tardi
* tardivo

##### Further reading

* tardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tardo
* first-person singular present indicative of tardare

## Latin
### Etymology

From tardus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtar.doː/, [ˈt̪ärd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtar.do/, [ˈt̪ärd̪o]

### Verb

tardō (present infinitive tardāre, perfect active tardāvī, supine tardātum); first conjugation
* to check or retard, hinder, impede or delay
    Synonyms: refrēnō, dētineō, reprimō, officiō, cohibeō, obstō, intersaepiō, prohibeō, impediō, arceō, perimō, moror
* to hesitate
    Synonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, trahō, dubitō
    Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō

#### Related terms

* tardus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: tardar
* French: tarder
* Italian: tardare
* Occitan: tardar
* Old Galician-Portuguese: tardar
** Galician: tardar
** Portuguese: tardar
* Piedmontese: tardé
* Spanish: tardar

### Adjective

tardō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tardus

### References

* “tardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “tardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* tardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtaʁ.du/ [ˈtaɦ.du]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtaʁ.du/ [ˈtaɦ.du]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈtaɾ.du/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtaʁ.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtaɻ.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtaɾ.du/ [ˈtaɾ.ðu]
* Hyphenation: tar‧do

### Etymology 1

From Latin tardus.

#### Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)
* sluggish, lazy

##### Related terms

* tardar
* tarde
* tardio

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tardo
* first-person singular present indicative of tardar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɾdo/ [ˈt̪aɾ.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -aɾdo
* Syllabification: tar‧do

### Etymology 1

From Latin tardus, possibly borrowed. First attested 15th century.

#### Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)
* tardy, late
    Synonym: atrasado
* slow, sluggish
    Synonym: lento
* dim-witted
    Synonym: cortito

##### Related terms

* tardar
* tarde
* tardío

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tardo
* first-person singular present indicative of tardar

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tardo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “tardo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10