# ludo
## English
### Noun

ludo (plural ludos)
* Alternative letter-case form of Ludo

### Anagrams

* Loud, loud, ould

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From ludi (“to play”) +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈludo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -udo
* Hyphenation: lu‧do

### Noun

ludo (accusative singular ludon, plural ludoj, accusative plural ludojn)
* game

#### Derived terms

* kartludo (“card game”)
* ludejo (“playground”)
* ludilo (“toy”)

## Ido
### Etymology

From ludar (“to play”) +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈludo/
* Hyphenation: lu‧do

### Noun

ludo (plural ludi)
* playing, game
* gambling
    Synonym: ludrisko

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin lūdus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlu.do/
* Rhymes: -udo
* Hyphenation: lù‧do

### Noun

ludo m (plural ludi)
* game, sport
* pastime

### Anagrams

* duol

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈluː.doː/, [ˈɫ̪uːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlu.do/, [ˈluːd̪o]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *loidō, from an o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to play”), perhaps reduplicated present *lé-loyd-ti ~ *lé-lid-n̥ti through dissimilation. Cognate with Ancient Greek λίζω (lízō, “to play”).

#### Verb

lūdō (present infinitive lūdere, perfect active lūsī, supine lūsum); third conjugation
* to play (a game or sport)
    Synonym: iocor
* to frolic, behave playfully
* to practice, amuse oneself with
* to sport, play amorously
* to mock, mimic
* to tease, ridicule
* to deceive, trick

##### Derived terms

* ablūdō
* allūdō
* antelūdium
* collūdō
* dēlūdō
* ēlūdō
* illūdō
* interlūdō
* lūdibundus
* lūdicer
* lūdiō
* lūdius
* lūdus
* lūsiō
* lūsor
* lūsus
* oblūdō
* perlūdō
* praelūdō
* prōlūdō
* relūdō

##### Descendants

* English: Ludo, ludicrous
* Esperanto: ludi
* Italian: ludere, ludico
* Spanish: lúdico, luir, ludir
* French: ludique

#### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “666”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 666
* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lūdus, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 368
* ↑ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “lei̯d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 402–403
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lūdō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 350–351

#### Further reading

* “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ludo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ludo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to make sport of, rally a person: ludere, irridere, deridere aliquem (ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici (ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi (ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia (ambiguous) gymnastic contests: ludi gymnici

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lūdō m
* dative/ablative singular of lūdus

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lûːdo/
* Hyphenation: lu‧do

### Adverb

lȗdo (Cyrillic spelling лу̑до)
* crazily, insanely

#### Related terms

* ludnica
* lud

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈludo/ [ˈlu.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -udo
* Syllabification: lu‧do

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ludo m (uncountable)
* (South America) Ludo
    Synonym: parchís

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

ludo
* first-person singular present indicative of ludir

### Further reading

* “ludo”, 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