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dedo

dedo noun: a traditional short Spanish unit of length, usually about equal to 1.75 cm.

Noun

dedo (plural dedos)

  1. (historical) A traditional short Spanish unit of length, usually about equal to 1.75 cm.
  2. (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 1.8 cm.

dedo meaning in Tamil

dedo in Tamil

கைவிரல்

Synonyms of dedo

Forms of dedo

pluraldedos

Origin of dedo

From Spanish and Portuguese dedo (“digit, finger”), from Old Spanish and Old Galician-Portuguese dedo, from Latin digitus, from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, to point out”). Doublet of digit.

Questions about dedo

What does dedo mean?
Dedo means a traditional short Spanish unit of length, usually about equal to 1.75 cm.
What is dedo in Tamil?
Dedo in Tamil is கைவிரல். See Dedo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dedo?
Dedo is a noun.
What is the plural of dedo?
The plural of dedo is dedos.

Words near dedo in the dictionary

  1. dedition
  2. deditions
  3. Dediu
  4. Dedman
  5. Dedmans
  6. dedo
  7. dedogmatization
  8. dedogmatize
  9. dedogmatized
  10. dedogmatizes
  11. dedogmatizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dedo (page history and authors); dedo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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