different between condo vs cond

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ndo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd??

Noun

condo (plural condos)

1. (US, Canada) Clipping of condominium.

Derived terms

• condo building
• condop

Anagrams

• codon, no-doc

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.do/

Noun

condo m (plural condos)

1. (Quebec) condominium

Anagrams

• codon

Latin

Etymology

From con- +? *d? (from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, do, make”)). Compare with confici? (from the same root).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.do?/, [?k?n?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.do/, [?k?n?d??]

Verb

cond? (present infinitive condere, perfect active condid?, supine conditum); third conjugation

1. I put together.
2. I build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct.
3. I put away, store or treasure up; preserve; inter, bury; conceal, hide.
4. (figuratively) I thrust or strike in deep, plunge.
5. (figuratively) I bring to an end, conclude

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Spanish: condir

References

• condo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• condo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• condo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• condo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Adjective

cond (not comparable)

1. Clipping of conditional.

Etymology 2

From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.

Verb

cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)

1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
   • 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:

     Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]

Further reading

• cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• no-CD