From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en]; equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An old person with impaired intellect ; a senile person; one in their dotage .
2. * [II]
3. * [V]
4. * [page=58]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1835 | author=w:William Wordsworth | chapter=The Pass of Kirkstone | title= 吴语: Guide to the Lakes | url=http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww451.html
|passage=Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields,<br>All that the fertile
valley shields;<br>Wages of folly--baits of crime,<br>Of life's uneasy game
the stake,<br>Playthings that keep the eyes awake<br>Of drowsy, DOTARD
Time;—}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness ; a doter .
**** Usage notes
- The pronunciation variant that gives a secondary stress (rather than unstressed reduction) to the second syllable, as if it were _-tard_ , does not reflect the traditional norm for how the word is pronounced, just as a bastard is not a *bas -tard , either, in educated non- [humorous] speech.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|anecdotard |dotardly|dotardness|dotardism|dotardy}}
**** Translations
[old person with impaired intellect]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] [derogatory] , [de] [derogatory]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [originally: patient suffering from senile dementia] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
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*** See also
- [en] < !--almost near-syn but maybe not quite-->
- [en] < !-- dotard has been used synonymously with it, but MWU calls the imbecile sense of dotard obsolete, and any such use as might still happen today could be more catachresis than otherwise-->
*** References
- [R:MWO]
- [R:Dictionary.com]
- [id=00068905]
*** Further reading
- [dotard]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Etymology
From [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[dotardes]
1. A [en] ; someone who displays senility .
2. * 14TH C. , [Geoffrey Chaucer] , _[The Canterbury Tales]_ , "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," lines 285-92, see https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Prologue_and_Tale
3. *: [enm]
4. A fool or simpleton ; someone who displays stupidity .
**** Descendants
- [en]
**** References
- [entry=dōtard ]
[enm] [enm]