Spado

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato. archaic

    "an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]"

Example

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"an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]"

Etymology

From Latin spadō, from Ancient Greek.

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