Where does “dorado” come from?
dorado (English) comes from Italian dorato, from Italian dorare, from Latin deaurō, from Latin aurō, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō.
dorado (English): "Coryphaena hippurus", the mahi-mahi or dolphin,...
Definitions
- "Coryphaena hippurus", the mahi-mahi or dolphin,...
Ancestry of “dorado”, step by step
dorado traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian dorato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | dorato | past participle of dorare; gilt, gilded; golden |
| 2 | Italian | dorare | to gild; to brown |
| 3 | Latin | deaurō | to gild; cover with gold |
| 4 | Latin | aurō | to gild |
| 5 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 6 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 8 | Latin | audeō | to dare, venture, risk |
| 9 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 10 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |