mando

• IPA^(key): /ˈmændəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ændəʊ

Clipping of mandatory +‎ -o.

mando (plural mandos)

1. (disc golf, informal) A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.
   • 1998 September 10, Dennis Moore, “Re: Patent Law and Disc Golf”, in rec.sport.disc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I am apparently very much in the minority regarding mandos. I think well considered mandatories can turn otherwise boring, wide open holes into something of more challenge and interest. But from what I can tell most golfers hate mandos.

mando (comparative more mando, superlative most mando)

1. (slang) Clipping of mandatory.
   • 2003 May 8, Lomax, “Re: Again”, in alt.support.divorce‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I've been steaming a lot a veggies and I can get that down without any problem. It's a very good thing I am on Aciphex now as I think my stomach would have imploded by now. With me, I -HAVE- to get back in shape. It's mando becuase^[sic] the Navy says so. Chuckle.

   • 2015 March 15, Kendrick Lamar, Marvin Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper, Rahki, “I [Album version]” (track 15), in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:

     It shouldn’t be shit for us to come out here and appreciate the little bit of life we got left, dog / On the dead homies, Charlie P, you know that, bro / You know that / It's— it's mando, right, it's mando

Clipping of mandolin.

mando (plural mandos)

1. (music, informal) Clipping of mandolin.
   • 1995 December 4, Jm721, “Re: Stelling-Mandolin ?”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Can't tell you about mandos, but the Stelling Banjos are exquisite. Geoff Stelling used to be in San Diego, Calif. but now he is out on the East Coast. His banjos have excellent crisp tone. I would suspect that his mandos are similar[.]

• Damon, Doman, Domna, Monda, NoMad, mad on, mad-on, monad, nomad

mando

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandar

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mando anim

1. mule

Inherited from Spanish mando (“order”).

mando

1. order; command

mando

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandar

• IPA^(key): /ˈman.do/
• Rhymes: -ando
• Hyphenation: màn‧do

mando

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandare

• Monda, monda

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈman.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈman.do]
• Hyphenation: man‧do

From Proto-Italic *manuðō, which also has reflexes in Oscan, albeit with a change of conjugation class in Latin. Equivalent to manus (“hand”) +‎ -dō (“put”).

mandō (present infinitive mandāre, perfect active mandāvī, supine mandātum); first conjugation

2. to order, command, enjoin

   Synonyms: praescrībō, praecipiō, imperō, indīcō, ēdīcō, iniungō, dictō, iubeō, pōnō

3. to put in hand; deliver over
4. to commit, consign

   Synonyms: dēlēgō, dēsignō, assignō, dēmandō, tribuō, īnstituō, impertiō, elēgō, lēgō, appōnō, prōdō, cōnsociō, ōrdinō, distribuō, attribuō, discrībō, addīcō

   aliquid alicui mandare ― to give mission to someone

5. to confide
6. to commission
7. to put in writing
8. to send word to
9. to entrust
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.20:

     Quae cum ita sint, Catilīna, dubitās, sī ēmorī aequō animō nōn potes, abīre in aliquās terrās, et vītam istam, multīs suppliciīs iūstīs dēbitīsque ēreptam, fugae sōlitūdinīque mandāre?

     Since these things are so, Catiline, do you hesitate — if you cannot die with a calm mind — to go away to other lands? And that life of yours — snatched from many just and deserved punishments — to entrust [it] to flight and solitude?

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• manus

• “mando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Enrico Olivetti. Dizionario Latino
• “mando”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to impress on the memory: memoriae mandare aliquid
    
  • to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare
    
  • to impress a thing on one's memory, mind: aliquid animo mentique penitus mandare (Catil. 1. 11. 27)
    
  • to put down in writing: litteris mandare or consignare aliquid (Acad. 2. 1. 2)
    
  • to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
    
  • to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
    
  • to take to flight: fugae se mandare (B. G. 2. 24)
    
  • to flee headlong: praecipitem se fugae mandare
    
  • (ambiguous) to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: mandatum, negotium alicui dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to execute a commission: mandatum exsequi, persequi, conficere
    

Uncertain, but probably from a Proto-Italic *mandnō, from Proto-Indo-European *menth₂-, from a root *meth₂-. Further information is as follows:

mandō (present infinitive mandere, perfect active mandī, supine mānsum); third conjugation

1. to chew, masticate

   Synonyms: masticō, mandūcō, rūminor

2. to bite, gnaw
3. (Late Latin) to eat

• mandibula
• mandūcus
• mandūcō

From mandō (“to chew”) +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix).

mandō m (genitive mandōnis); third declension

1. glutton, gormandizer

Third-declension noun.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃du
• Hyphenation: man‧do

From mandar (“to order; to command”).

mando m (plural mandos)

1. command; order (demand for someone to do something)
2. command (right or authority to order)

• (order): ordem, comando
• (authority): comando, autoridade

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mando

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmando/ [ˈmãn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ando
• Syllabification: man‧do

Deverbal from mandar.

mando m (plural mandos)

1. command
2. (Spain) remote control

   Synonyms: mando a distancia, telemando, control remoto, control

3. (video games, Spain) controller, gamepad, joypad

   Synonym: control

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mando

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandar

• “mando”, 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