spado

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noun

Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.

OriginLatin spadō →
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Meanings

nounspado (plural spados or spadoes or spadones)

plural spados · plural spadoes · plural spadones

  1. archaicSomeone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.

    an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]

    1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9

Origin

  1. Latinspadō
  2. Englishspado

From Latin spadō, from Ancient Greek.

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Chicago

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