mondo

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See also: mondó, móndo, and mondò

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Japanese 問答 (mondō).

Noun

mondo (plural mondos)

  1. (Zen Buddhism) A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.

Etymology 2

From the title of the 1962 Italian cult documentary film Mondo cane, Italian for "A Dog's World", from mondo (“world”) and cane (“dog”). The film featured bizarre scenes, leading to English use of mondo as an adverb meaning "very, extremely" in mock-Italian phrases like mondo bizarro.[1] Doublet of monde.

Adjective

mondo (comparative more mondo, superlative most mondo)

  1. (US, slang) Big, large; major, significant.
    • 1997, K. C. Constantine, Family Values, G. K. Hall & Co., published 1997, →ISBN, page 80:
      […] I mean, me bein' here has caused us some mondo problems, so I shoulda figured out that not bein' here anymore would cause some more problems — "
    • 2010, Dakota Cassidy, You Dropped a Blonde on Me‎[1], Berkley Sensation, published 2010, →ISBN:
      Younger gorgeous woman marries older, rich man, lives her life solely for him while reaping the bennies of mondo moolah only to end up dumped by older rich man for newer, younger model.
    • 2012, Lucienne Diver, Crazy in the Blood, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., published 2012, →ISBN, page 79:
      “You're kidding—you can eat again after that mondo burger you had for lunch?”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.

Adverb

mondo (not comparable)

  1. (US, slang) Very, extremely, really.
    • 1992, Cherie Bennett, Sunset Paradise, Berkley, published 1992, →ISBN, page 1:
      "This rain is mondo depressing," Sam sighed as she stared out the sliding glass doors that led to the Hewitts' deck.
    • 2001, Margie Lapanja, Food Men Love: All-Time Favorite Recipes from Caesar Salad and Grilled Rib-Eye to Cinnamon Buns and Apple Pie, Conari Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 196:
      This recipe, from someone who really knows her tiramisu, is mondo rich, utterly divine, and simple.
    • 2002, Jeffrey Deaver, Mistress of Justice, Bantam Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 93:
      “Hey, this place is mondo cool. Bowie hangs out there. It's so packed you can hardly get in. And they play industrial out of one set of speakers and the Sex Pistols out of the other. I mean in the same room! Like, at a thousand decibels."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mondo.

Usage notes

Nowadays mostly associated with a certain sort of "cheesy" dated 90s youth slang. Modern usage is almost always tongue in cheek. Compare tubular, far-out, etc.

Derived terms

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "mondo" on thefreedictionary.com

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From French monde, from Late Latin mundus (“world”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mondo (accusative singular mondon, plural mondoj, accusative plural mondojn)

  1. world (the earth)
    • 2001 February, Evgeni Georgiev, “Vulkanoj”, in Monato‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2019, page 22:
      Ĉi-momente en la mondo estas preskaŭ 600 aktivaj vulkanoj.
      At this moment there are almost 600 active volcanoes in the world.
  2. (with "the") human collective existence; existence in general.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • mond' in Fundamento de Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof, 1905

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mondo m (plural mondos) (ORB, broad)

  1. world

References

  • monde in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • mondo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

Guaraní

Verb

mondo

  1. to send

Ido

Pronunciation

Noun

mondo (plural mondi)

  1. world
  2. people; society
  3. kingdom

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mondo m

  1. world
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
      Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,
      That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Pronunciation

Noun

mondo m (plural mondi)

  1. world
  2. people; society
  3. kingdom
    mondo vegetale
    vegetable kingdom

Descendants

  • → English: mondo

Verb

mondo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mondare

Adjective

mondo (feminine monda, masculine plural mondi, feminine plural monde)

  1. cleaned (vegetables)
  2. peeled (fruit)

Further reading

  • mondo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • mondo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Lombard

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Pronunciation

Noun

mondo m

  1. (Old Lombard) world

Descendants

Portuguese

Verb

mondo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mondar

Sambali

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mundo (“world”).

Noun

mondo

  1. world

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmondo/ [ˈmõn̪.d̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ondo
  • Syllabification: mon‧do

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mundus.

Adjective

mondo (feminine monda, masculine plural mondos, feminine plural mondas)

  1. net, pure
    Synonyms: puro, inadulterado
Derived terms

Noun

mondo m (plural mondos)

  1. Archaic form of mundo.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mondo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mondar

Further reading

Swahili

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

mondo (n class, plural mondo)

  1. serval (medium-sized African wild cat)

Etymology 2

Noun

mondo

  1. plural of ondo
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