fado

From Portuguese fado (“fate”), from Latin fātum. Doublet of fate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːdoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

fado (plural fados)

1. A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.

• FOAD

From Portuguese fado, from Latin fātum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfado]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: fa‧do

fado (accusative singular fadon, plural fadoj, accusative plural fadojn)

1. (music, uncountable) fado (genre of Portuguese folk music)
2. a song in the fado style

Borrowed from Portuguese.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑdo/, [ˈfɑ̝do̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːdu/, [ˈfɑ̝ːdu] (according to original Portuguese)
• Rhymes: -ɑdo
• Syllabification^(key): fa‧do

fado

1. fado (Portuguese fado singing as art)
2. fado, fado song (song in this style)

• fadolaulu

• “fado”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

fado

1. first-person singular present indicative of fadar

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: fa‧do

fado (2)

Inherited from Latin fātum (“destiny, fate”).

fado m (plural fados)

1. fate

   Quem me dera poder mudar o meu fado.

   I wish I could change my fate.

2. (music) fado

   O fado é um estilo musical português.

   Fado is a Portuguese musical style.

• fadista

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fado

1. first-person singular present indicative of fadar

Borrowed from Portuguese fado; the inherited cognate with the original meaning of "fate" is hado.

fado m (plural fados)

1. (music) fado

• “fado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014