passo

See also: passò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpa.su]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpa.so]

Verb

passo

1. first-person singular present indicative of passar

Galician

Verb

passo

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of passar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.so/
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: pàs‧so

Etymology 1

From Latin passus (“a step”).

Noun

passo m (plural passi)

1. footstep (sound)
2. footprint
3. step
4. pace
5. passage (of text)
6. (film) gauge (film size)
7. pitch (distance between evenly spaced objects)
8. wheelbase
9. mountain pass
10. (mechanics) backlash

Derived terms

• a passo d'uomo
• aprirsi un passo
• dare il passo
• due passi (“short distance”)
• essere di passo
• lasciare libero il passo
• passo carrabile
• passo carraio
• passo estremo
• trapasso

Verb

passo

1. first-person singular present indicative of passare

Etymology 2

From Latin passus (“dried”).

Adjective

passo (feminine passa, masculine plural passi, feminine plural passe)

1. dried

Derived terms

• appassire
• passire

Anagrams

• possa, spaso, sposa

Latin

Participle

passō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of passus

References

• "passo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• paso

Etymology

Inherited from Latin passus (“step, pace”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese passo and Old French pas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaso/

Noun

passo m (plural passos)

1. step (advance or movement made from one foot to the other; pace)

Descendants

• Ladino: paso / פאס
• Spanish: paso (see there for further descendants)

References

• “passo”, in Diccionario del español medieval electrónico [Electronic Dictionary of Medieval Spanish] (in Spanish, English, and German), Rostock University and Paderborn University, 2022–present
• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “passo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 383

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀧𑀲𑁆𑀲𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• पस्सो (Devanagari script)
• পস্সো (Bengali script)
• පස‍්සො (Sinhalese script)
• ပဿော or ပသ်သေႃ (Burmese script)
• ปสฺโส or ปัสโส (Thai script)
• ᨷᩔᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ປສ຺ໂສ or ປັສໂສ (Lao script)
• បស្សោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄥𑄴𑄥𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

passo

1. nominative singular of passa (“one who sees”)

Noun

passo

1. nominative singular of passa (“flank”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.su/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.su/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.so/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.su/

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.s̺u]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -asu
• Homophone: paço
• Hyphenation: pas‧so

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese passo, from Latin passus. Cognate with Catalan pas and Galician and Spanish paso.

Noun

passo m (plural passos)

2. step; footstep; pace (movement made from one foot to the other)

   Synonym: passada

4. (historical, measure) Portuguese pace, a former unit of length equivalent to about 1.6 m
6. step (very short distance)
8. step; footstep (sound produced by stepping on the ground)
10. (chiefly military, except in set phrases) pace (manner or speed of walking or marching)

    Synonym: andamento

12. pace (the speed of a process)
14. (dance) the movements associated with a dance style
16. step; stage; phase (distinct part of a process or protocol)

    Synonyms: estágio, fase

18. (figurative) step (an attempt in dealing with something)
20. (geography) pass (narrow passage or channel between geographical features)

    Synonym: garganta

22. (mechanical engineering) pitch (distance between a gear’s teeth)
24. (mechanical engineering) pitch (distance between a screws’s threads)

Coordinate terms

• (unit of length): pé (¹⁄₅ passo), côvado (²⁄₅ passo), vara (²⁄₃ passo), toesa (1+¹⁄₅ passo), braça (1+¹⁄₃ passo)

See also

• milha, légua

Etymology 2

Verb

passo

1. first-person singular present indicative of passar

Further reading

• “passo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “passo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Verb

passo

1. first-person singular present indicative of passar