foedo

== Latin == === Etymology === From foedus (“filthy”). Compare Old English bædan (“to defile, pollute”). More at bad. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfoe̯.doː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.do] === Verb === foedō (present infinitive foedāre, perfect active foedāvī, supine foedātum); first conjugation to make foul or filthy, soil, dirty; defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform 1425—1450, (MS. Selden 55, Bodleian Library, Oxford) Vita Beati Eduardi Regis et Confessoris, p. 371, lines 327-329: (figuratively) to dishonor, disgrace 1509—1513, Ludovico Ariosto, De Diversis Amoribus: ==== Conjugation ==== === Adjective === foedō dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of foedus === References === “foedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “foedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “foedo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.