-ardo
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Germanic element used in anthroponyms (e.g. Old High German [Rīco]hard, Old Saxon *[Regin]hard, Old English [Beorn]heard), derived from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard; brave”). Compare English -ard, French -ard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ardo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -arda, masculine plural -ardi, feminine plural -arde)
- (non-productive) appended to placenames to form relational adjectives meaning “of, from or related to a place”
Suffix
[edit]-ardo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ardi, feminine -arda)
- (non-productive) appended to placenames to form nouns meaning “one who is of, from or related to a place”
- (non-productive) appended to nouns or adjectives to form possessional adjectives or nouns meaning “(one) having the characteristic described by the noun or adjective”
- lingua (“tongue”) + -ardo → (archaic) linguardo (“gossip, talkative person”)
- vecchio (“old”) + -ardo → (literary, pejorative) vecchiardo (“old man”)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- -ardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ardo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ardos)
- -ard (someone who is in a suffixed condition)
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kret- (strong)
- Italian terms borrowed from Germanic languages
- Italian terms derived from Germanic languages
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ardo
- Rhymes:Italian/ardo/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian suffixes
- Italian adjective-forming suffixes
- Italian noun-forming suffixes
- Italian countable suffixes
- Italian masculine suffixes
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese noun-forming suffixes
- Portuguese countable suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes