Definition of Tardo

1. a. Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.

2. n. A sloth.

Definition of Tardo

1. slow -- used as a musical direction [adj]

Medical Definition of Tardo

1. A sloth. Origin: Sp, slow, L. Tardus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tardo

tardies
tardiest
tardigrada
tardigrade
tardigrades
tardigradous
tardily
tardiness
tardinesses
tardity
tardive
tardive cyanosis
tardive dyskinesia
tardive dyskinesias
tardively
tardo (current term)
tards
tardy
tardy slip
tardy slips
tardying
tardyon
tardyonic
tardyons
tare
tared
tarenflurbil
tarente
tarentism
tarentula

Literary usage of Tardo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In appealing from the decision of Alexander VI., he was taking the position which Julius II., in his bull Cum tardo divino, 1505, justified. ..."

2. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"lento, tardo ; ultimo : qf —, últimamente, non ha guari ; of — ¡/ears, da qualche anno, ... tempo più tardo, m.; un1- dezza,/.; indugio, m. latent, ADJ. ..."

3. A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the German-Latin by Joseph Esmond Riddle, Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1847)
"tardo pede, tardo gradu, tardo passu (u-tth slow ... to go or more t , tarde ire or incredi, tardo pede or gradu incedere, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In appealing from the decision of Alexander VI., he was taking the position which Julius II., in his bull Cum tardo divino, 1505, justified. ..."

5. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"lento, tardo ; ultimo : qf —, últimamente, non ha guari ; of — ¡/ears, da qualche anno, ... tempo più tardo, m.; un1- dezza,/.; indugio, m. latent, ADJ. ..."

6. A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the German-Latin by Joseph Esmond Riddle, Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1847)
"tardo pede, tardo gradu, tardo passu (u-tth slow ... to go or more t , tarde ire or incredi, tardo pede or gradu incedere, ..."

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