# dolo
## Fijian
### Verb

dolo
* (intransitive) to creep, to crawl (used to refer to creatures without legs)
dolo (dolo-va)
* (transitive) to creep to, on or over

#### Usage notes

The verbs dolo and dolova should only be used for creatures without legs such as snakes, worms and eels. For creatures with legs, one should use yaqa (especially for insects and bugs that do have legs) and qasi (for other creatures with legs).

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɔlo
* Hyphenation: dò‧lo

### Noun

dolo m (plural doli)
* (law) malice
* fraud, deceit

#### Related terms

* doloso

### Anagrams

* lodo, lodò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdo.loː/, [ˈd̪ɔɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdo.lo/, [ˈd̪ɔːlo]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *dolaō, from earlier *dolajō, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁yéti, from *delh₁- (“to cut”).

#### Verb

dolō (present infinitive dolāre, perfect active dolāvī, supine dolātum); first conjugation
* to hew, chop into shape
* to fashion, devise

##### Derived terms

* dolābra
* dolāmen
* dolātilis
* dolātōrium
* dolātus
* ēdolō

##### Descendants

* Calabrian: dulare
* Italian: dolare
* Romanian: dura
* Spanish: dolar
* → French: doler

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

dolō m
* dative/ablative singular of dolus

### References

* “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “dolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "dolo", 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)
* “dolo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “dolo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Louisiana Creole
### Alternative forms

* dilo, dlo, lo

### Etymology

Derived from French de l’ (“some”) + French eau (“water”), with the partitive article re-analyzed as part of the noun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doˈlo/
* Rhymes: -o

### Noun

dolo
* water
* (a) body of water
* (a) tear (a drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation)

#### Derived terms

* dolo béni
* dolo ho
* dolo troub
* dolo wo
* fé dolo

### See also

* larozé, séren (“dew”)

### References

* Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole (1998), →ISBN

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔ.lɔ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
* Syllabification: do‧lo

### Noun

dolo f
* vocative singular of dola

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dolus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.lu/, (proscribed) /ˈdo.lu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.lu/, (proscribed) /ˈdo.lu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.lo/, (proscribed) /ˈdo.lo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdo.lu/
* Hyphenation: do‧lo

### Noun

dolo m (plural dolos)
* deceit, trick, fraud
* (law) intentional transgression

#### Derived terms

* doloso

### References

* ↑ “dolo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “dolo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolus (“fraud, trickery”), from Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdolo/ [ˈd̪o.lo]
* Rhymes: -olo
* Syllabification: do‧lo

### Noun

dolo m (plural dolos)
* fraud
* (law) malice

#### Related terms

* doloso

### Further reading

* “dolo”, 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

## Tayo
### Noun

dolo
* water
** Philip Baker,From Contact to Creole and Beyond (1995), page 139:
    dolo sa le sal
       the water which is dirty
    Synonym: delo

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

From Mandarin 朵落.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tolo]

### Noun

dolo
* head (body part)

### References

* Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN