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spadones

spadones is the plural of spado.

spadones is the plural of spadone.

Meaning of spado

Noun

spado (plural spados or spadoes or spadones)

  1. (archaic) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
    • 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 […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9

Origin of spadones

From Latin spadōnēs, plural of spadō.

Questions about spadones

What is spadones the plural of?
Spadones is the plural of spado.

Words near spadones in the dictionary

  1. spado
  2. spadoes
  3. spadona
  4. spadonas
  5. spadone
  6. spadones
  7. Spadoni
  8. Spadonis
  9. spados
  10. spadroon
  11. spadroons

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