English

Noun

Ludo

1. a children's board game in which tokens are moved round a board

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of Ludovic.

Proper noun

Ludo

1. A nickname short for Ludovic

Anagrams

• Loud, loud, ould

English

Noun

ludo ‎(plural ludos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ludo

Anagrams

• Loud, loud, ould

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin lūdus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈdo/

Noun

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

1. game

Derived terms

• kartludo ‎(“card game”)
• ludejo ‎(“playground”)
• ludi ‎(“to play”)
• ludilo ‎(“toy”)

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ludo, from Latin lūdus.

Noun

ludo (plural ludi)

1. game

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Latin lūdus

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -udo

Noun

ludo m ‎(plural ludi)

1. game, sport
2. pastime

Latin

Etymology

Along with lūdus ‎(“game”), it is either from Proto-Indo-European *leyd- ‎(“to play”) or from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.doː/

Verb

lūdō ‎(present infinitive lūdere, perfect active lūsī, supine lūsum); third conjugation

1. I play (a game or sport).
2. I frolic, behave playfully.
3. I practice, amuse myself with.
4. I sport, play amorously.
5. I mock, mimic.
6. I tease, ridicule.
7. I deceive, trick.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Albanian: lodër
• English: Ludo, ludicrous
• Spanish: luir, ludir

Noun

lūdō m

1. dative singular of lūdus
2. ablative singular of lūdus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ludo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lûːdo/
• Hyphenation: lu‧do

Adverb

lȗdo ‎(Cyrillic spelling лу̑до)

1. crazy, insanely

Spanish

Verb

ludo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of ludir.