laedo

Of uncertain origin;^[1] proposed derivations include:

• From a Proto-Indo-European root common to Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”), λίστρον (lístron, “spade, shovel”) and Latvian lîžu (“to clear a land”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *slaid-, *sled-, a root common to Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”).
• From a Proto-Indo-European root common to Old Norse lesta (“to damage”), lǫstr (“damage”) and Ancient Greek λαιδρός (laidrós, “bold”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-dʰeh₁-e/o- (“to put in one's share”), a compound of *deh₂y- +‎ *dʰeh₁-.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlae̯.doː/, [ˈɫ̪äe̯d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.do/, [ˈlɛːd̪o]

laedō (present infinitive laedere, perfect active laesī, supine laesum); third conjugation

1. to strike, collide, hurt
2. to offend
3. to thwart
4. to betray

• laesiō
• laesus
• ēlīdō
• collīdō

• Old Italian: liedere
• → Italian: ledere
• → German: lädieren

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “laesus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 129

• “laedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to break one's word: fidem laedere, violare, frangere