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Borrowed from Old French lait, leit (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). More at English loath.

• IPA(key): /ˈlajdo/ [ˈla̠j.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ajdo
• Hyphenation: lai‧do

laido (feminine laida, masculine plural laidos, feminine plural laidas)

1. very ugly
   Synonym: feo
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 398:
     Mays era tã laydo et tã desaposto que esto sería hũa grã marauilla de cõtar, ca el nõ andaua uestido, mays todo era cabeludo cõmo besta
     But he was so ugly and unhandsome that this would be a marvellous story, because he didn't wear clothes, but he was totally furred as a beast

• eslaidar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “laido”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “laido”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “laido”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “laido”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “laido”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Old French lait, leit (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), of Germanic origin, from Low Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”) from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at English loath. Cognate with Sicilian làdiu.

laido (feminine laida, masculine plural laidi, feminine plural laide)

1. filthy, foul
2. obscene

• laidamente
• Alido, aldio, alido, lodai

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at loath.

• IPA(key): /ˈlaido/ [ˈlai̯.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -aido
• Syllabification: lai‧do

laido (feminine laida, masculine plural laidos, feminine plural laidas) (archaic)

1. ugly
   Synonym: feo
2. ignominious
   Synonym: ignominioso
3. sad, downcast
   Synonyms: triste, cabizbajo

• “laido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025