Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sloth. See sloth, n., 4.
  • In music, slow: noting passages to be so rendered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Mus.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A sloth.

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  • noun archaic A sloth.

Etymologies

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Spanish, slow, Latin tardus.

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Examples

  • Come giudichi questo tardo horse opera criminal il suo attore simbolo, Franco Nero?

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Siempre de oído, como si fuera una adivinanza con sonidos; es que casi no leo música: soy muy mala y tardo mil años (falta de constancia, supongo).

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009

  • Se vi interessa, un altro EP uscirà nel tardo 2008.

    No Fat Clips!!! : The Rickshaws – So Free 2008

  • I thought I'd try what I did with the pet thing, so I typed in the full name of the boy I loved in 2nd grade, and this tardo popped up with the same name!

    whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2005

  • From Devoto-Oli, Dizionario della Lingua Italiana: Cassazione = Composizione strumentale simile alla serenata e al divertiment, diffusa in Germania nel tardo Settecento.

    languagehat.com: CASSATION. 2004

  • "But I 'm doubting it's a bit too late -- troppo tardo," he said to

    The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883

  • The fact is, that Machiavelli, as is usual with those against whom no crime can be proved, was suspected of and charged with atheism; and the first and last most violent opposers of _The Prince_ were both Jesuits, one of whom persuaded the Inquisition "benchè fosse tardo," to prohibit the treatise, and the other qualified the secretary of the Florentine republic as no better than a fool.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • I buy the Guardian when I'm not in a bate about drivel like this because I want well written soundly researched intelligent copy, not the poltical equivilant of whether some surgically ehanced tardo has a new bloke and is in luvvv.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk Phillip Inman 2010

  • Eso sí, tardo bastante más tiempo en dejarlo como me gusta, a diferencia del mucho más amigable Linux Mint

    Nauscopio Scipiorum maty 2010

  • I ate a bunch of each that night for dinner because I was starving since I was a tardo and hadn't eaten all day.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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