Editing Dado (architecture) (section)

{{Short description|Architectural element}}
{{For|the joinery term|Dado (joinery)}}
{{Other uses|Dado (disambiguation){{!}}Dado}}
[[File:Wall.svg|thumb|right|alt=Wall.svg|Diagram of a wall<br />{{leftlegend|#e88200|[[crown moulding]]}} {{leftlegend|#00cf40|[[dado rail]]}} {{leftlegend|#d9d04c|dado}} {{leftlegend|#664fe1|[[skirting board]]}} ]]

In [[architecture]], the '''dado''' is the lower part of a wall,<ref>{{cite dictionary | url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dado | title=Dado - definition | dictionary=[[Merriam-Webster]] | access-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref> below the [[dado rail]] and above the [[skirting board]]. The word is borrowed from Italian meaning "dice" or "cube",<ref name=lexico>{{cite web |url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/dado |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920204654/https://www.lexico.com/definition/dado |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |title=Dado|work=Lexico }}</ref> and refers to "[[wikt:die|die]]", an architectural term for the middle section of a [[pedestal]] or [[plinth]].<ref name=chitam>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_0rBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT209 |title=The Classical Orders of Architecture |first= Robert |last=Chitham |publisher=Routledge |date=2007|isbn=9781136358951 }}</ref>