vădos

Forms

vădos m or n (feminine singular vădoasă, masculine plural vădoși, feminine/neuter plural vădoase)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian vad (“ford”) + -os, according to MDA2 and the DLR.^[2][3] Ciorănescu lists it among the derivatives of vad as well, but notes that the REW traces it to Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows or fords”).^[4][5] Wiktionary gives both explanations.^[1] The REW sets it beside Italian guadoso, Spanish vadoso and Portuguese vadoso.^[5] The Latin adjective is vadum (“shallow, ford”) with the suffix -ōsus.^[1][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Cihac's etymological dictionary of 1870.^[2][3] The DLR finds it only in dictionaries (Cihac, Laurian and Massim, Barcianu, Alexi and others), always said of rivers.^[3]

Timeline

• 1870 – first record, in Cihac's dictionary.^[2][3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (dated, of a river) That can be crossed at a ford; having fords or shallows.^[3][4][1]

Related words

• vad
• Latin vadōsus

Usage notes

The word belongs to the dictionaries rather than to texts: the DLR labels it as found in past dictionaries.^[3] MDA2 defines it the other way round, as a river that cannot be crossed by a ford.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1420
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. vădos
4. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. vad
5. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 9120
6. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press