-dō

-dō Vorlage:lat. „stellen“

From Proto-Italic suffix *datos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-tó-s. Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“put; do”). The regular outcomes of *dʰ in Latin are /f/ word-initially (cf. fūmus) and /d/ word-medially (cf. fīdō).

The derivatives of -dō are not always easy to distinguish from those of dō (“give”) < *deh₃-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /doː/, [d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do/, [d̪o]

Verb

-dō (present infinitive -dere, perfect active -didī, supine -ditum); third conjugation

1. to put