different between tardo vs tardy

English

Etymology

Spanish tardo (“slow”), from Latin tardus.

Noun

tardo (plural tardos)

1. (archaic) A sloth.
   • 1881, Lippincott's magazine: Volume 27

     On my last trip to Vera Cruz I procured a pair of black tardos, full-grown and in a normal state of health […]

Anagrams

• Dorta, Troad, dotar, troad

Catalan

Verb

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tardar

Galician

Etymology

From the same origin that trasno (“goblin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?ð?]

Noun

tardo m (plural tardos)

1. (folklore) nightmare (goblin who plagues people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation)

References

• “tardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tardus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tar.do/
• Rhymes: -ardo

Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardi, feminine plural tarde)

1. slow, sluggard, dull, slow-witted, dull-witted
2. late, tardy

Related terms

Verb

tardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tardare

Latin

Etymology

From tardus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tar.do?/, [?t?ärd?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tar.do/, [?t??rd??]

Verb

tard? (present infinitive tard?re, perfect active tard?v?, supine tard?tum); first conjugation

1. I check or retard
2. I hinder, impede or delay
3. I hesitate

Conjugation

Related terms

• tardus

Descendants

Adjective

tard?

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tardus

References

• tardo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tardo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tardus.

Adjective

tardo m (feminine singular tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas, comparable)

1. sluggish, lazy

Related terms

• tardar
• tarde
• tardio

Verb

tardo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of tardar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?do/, [?t?a?.ð?o]

Etymology 1

From Latin tardus, possibly borrowed. First attested 15th century.

Adjective

tardo (feminine tarda, masculine plural tardos, feminine plural tardas)

1. tardy, late
2. slow, sluggish
3. dim-witted

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tardo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tardar.

References

English

Etymology

From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *tardivus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??di/
• Rhymes: -??(?)di

Adjective

tardy (comparative tardier, superlative tardiest)

1. Late; overdue or delayed.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 3, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     When everything is ended, then you come.

     These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,

     One time or other break some gallows’ back.

   • 1795, Isaac D’Israeli, An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character, London: T. Cadell Jr. and W. Davies, Chapter 9, p. 122,^[2]

     Men of genius anticipate their contemporaries, and know they are such, long before the tardy consent of the public.

   • 1914, Saki, “The Stake” in Beasts and Super-Beasts, London: John Lane, pp. 202-203,^[3]

     As a matter of fact, the luncheon fare, when it made its tardy appearance, was distinctly unworthy of the reputation which the justly-treasured cook had built up for herself.

   • 1963, James Baldwin, “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind” in The Fire Next Time, New York: Dial, p. 87,^[4]

     And the Black Muslims, along with many people who are not Muslims, no longer wish for a recognition so grudging and (should it ever be achieved) so tardy.

2. Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] fashions in proud Italy,

     Whose manners still our tardy apish nation

     Limps after in base imitation.

   • 1638, George Sandys, “To the Prince” in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems, London,^[6]

     Nor should their Age by Yeares be told:

     Whose Souls, more swift then Motion, clime;

     And check the tardy Flight of Time.

   • 1700, Matthew Prior, “Carmen Seculare, For the Year 1700. To the King” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, 2nd edition, 1709, p. 151,^[7]

     In various Views she tries her constant Theme;

     Finds him, in Councils, and in Arms, the same:

     When certain to o’ercome, inclin’d to save;

     Tardy to Vengeance; and with Mercy brave.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 49,^[8]

     […] a disease which medicine never cured, wealth never warded off, or poverty could boast exemption from; which sometimes moves in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but, slow or quick, is ever sure and certain.

   • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist, Millenium, 2000, Chapter 19,^[9]

     These berries […] are a deadly and insidious poison, though very tardy in their action, often lying dormant in the blood for many days.

3. Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.

   His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.

4. (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
   • c. 1592,, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 1,^[10]

     Be not ta’en tardy by unwise delay.

   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Canto 3, p. 104,^[11]

     Yield, Scoundrel base (quoth she) or die;

     Thy life is mine, and liberty.

     But if thou think’st I took thee tardy,

     And dar’st presume to be so hardy,

     To try thy fortune o’re afresh,

     I’le wave my title to thy flesh,

5. (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.

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Usage notes

• The term suggests habitual lateness.
• Somewhat dated in the United Kingdom.

Synonyms

• (late; overdue; not on time): belated, delayed

Translations

Noun

tardy (plural tardies)

1. (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.

2. (US) An instance of a student being marked as tardy by a teacher on their attendance sheet.

See also

• tardy slip

Verb

tardy (third-person singular simple present tardies, present participle tardying, simple past and past participle tardied)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.

Anagrams

• Darty