baud

• Baud

Borrowed from French baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

• IPA^(key): /bɔːd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

baud (countable and uncountable, plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
2. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

• gigabaud
• kilobaud
• megabaud

• Buda, Daub, Duba, abud, daub

baud m

1. baud (unit of rate of data transmission)

• baud in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• baud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin vōx, vocem, possibly influenced by vōtum.

baud f

1. voice

baud

1. pigeon

From Old French baud, bald (“joyous, full of ardor”), from Frankish *bald, *balt, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”) (compare English bold, Dutch boud).

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: bau, bauds, baux, beau, beaux (general), bot, bots (except regionally)

baud m (plural bauds)

1. a type of hunting dog

• baudet

Borrowed from English baud. Named for French inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903).

• IPA^(key): /bod/

baud m (plural bauds)

1. baud (unit)

• “baud”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

baud

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌳

baud

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of by
2. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of byde

baud

1. past tense of by

• bald, balt, baut

From Frankish *bald or similar Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balþaz.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbau̯t/

baud m (oblique and nominative feminine singular baude)

1. bold; brave
2. cheerful; full of ardour

• abaudir
• embaudir
• esbaudir

• Bourguignon: baud
• Middle French: baud
  • French: baud
• → Italian: baldo
• → Middle English: bawde, baude (noun)
  • English: bawd

baud m (plural bauds)

1. (computing, telecommunications) baud (a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second)

• (Sursilvan) baul
• (Sutsilvan) bòld
• (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) bod

From German bald.

baud

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) early

baud (comparative mair baud, superlative maist baud)

1. bad