alo

alo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Larike-Wakasihu.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Larike-Wakasihu terms

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/ [ʔʌˈlɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

aló f 

1. popcorn

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

alo

1. day

• P. T. Abraham, Apatani-English-Hindi Dictionary (1987)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔa.l̪oʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

alò (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. (archaic) rest (relief from any activity)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalo/ [ˈʔa.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

álo (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. nonstandard form of halo (“quiet!; be quiet!”)

alo

1. two

• IPA^(key): [ˈálo] (vowel length not well attested)

alo anim (plural alomeh)

1. (it is) a scarlet macaw; Ara macao.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 188r:

     Papagayo grãde. alo.

     A large parrot. alo.

   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, pt 2, f. 4r. col. 1:

     Alo. papagayo grande.

     Alo. a large parrot.

• Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 4

Ultimately from Latin āla (“wing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

alo (accusative singular alon, plural aloj, accusative plural alojn)

1. side of the nostril, ala of the nose
2. wing (of a building)
   • Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 1, Chapter 2,

     [...] Poncio Pilato, la prokuratoro de Judujo, kavaleriane trenante la plandumojn, eliris en la portikon inter la du aloj de la palaco de Herodo la Granda.

     [...] walking with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, the Procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, came out into the covered colonnade between the two wings of the palace of Herod the Great. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

3. wing, flank, branch (of a party, army, etc.)
   • Vladimír Váňa (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato Ŝvejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 2, Chapter 4,

     [...] serboj intertempe atingis nian arieron sur ambaǔ aloj kaj ĉirkaǔhakis nian centron en formo de triangulo [...]

     [...] in the meantime the Serbs had got behind us on both flanks and cut up our centre into a triangle. (Cecil Parrott translation, Heinemann, 1973)

4. (chess) flank, wing (left or right side of the chessboard)

alo (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of alar (“to go”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

alo

1. salt

• alò

From French allô (“hello”).

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

alo

1. (telephony) hello

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/, [ˈɐ.lo]

alo

1. front (facing side)
2. face

   Ua kipaku aku ʻoe iaʻu i kēia lā mai ke alo aku o ka honua nei.

   You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth.

3. presence

   Eia ʻoe i ke alo o ka ʻaha.

   Here you are in the presence of the assembly.

4. (geometry) face

• hoʻalo

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “alo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Borrowing from Italian ala, Spanish ala and French aile, all ultimately from Latin āla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalo/

alo (plural ali)

1. (anatomy) wing
   • 1913, Progreso, volume 5, page 263:

     Multa insekti esas sen-ala e la femini di kelka *lepidopteri (papilioni) havas ali, qui aspektas nur kom tre kurta stumpi, e korpo, qua similesas sako plena de ovi.

     Many insects are wingless and the females of some lepidoptera (butterflies) have wings that only look like very short stumps and a body that resembles a pouch full of eggs.

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

alo

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

alo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alare

• Lao, loa, olà

From Proto-Italic *alō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi (“grow, nourish”). Related to *oleō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.lo]

alō (present infinitive alere, perfect active aluī, supine altum or alitum); third conjugation

1. to feed, to nourish, to nurture
2. (pertaining to living things): to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.)

   Hominum gratia generatur, aluntur bestiae.

   It is for the sake of man that beasts are bred.

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāsco

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.4:

     Fastīdientis stomachī est multa dēgustāre; quae ubi varia sunt et dīversa, inquinant nōn alunt.

     It is [the sign] of an overly delicate stomach [merely] to taste many [foods]; for when these are varied and different, they pollute rather than nourish.
     (Seneca’s diet metaphor: the effect of superficially reading too many authors.)

3. to cause (a thing) to continue over time: to further, to maintain, to sustain

   Synonyms: subsistō, sufferō, sustentō, sustineō

   • Attributed to Cato Maior by Livius in Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXXIV, 9.12

     Bellum sē ipsum alet.

     The war will further itself.

4. to encourage or promote the development (of a thing): to foster, to further, to promote (something)

   Synonyms: foveō, iuvō, sublevō

Alō refers to the transitive act of causing someone or something to grow or develop. There was a companion lost stative to alō in Old Latin *aleō (“I grow up, I develop, I mature”), which remained effective in Classical Latin through its derived verb alēscō (“I grow, I grow up, I increase”).

• alicārius
• alimentārius
• alumnus

• oleō

• “alo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "alo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep up a fire: ignem alere
    
  • to entertain a hope: spem alere
    
  • to keep horses, dogs: alere equos, canes
    
  • to support an army: alere exercitum (Off. 1. 8. 25)
    
  • (ambiguous) the tide is coming in: aestus ex alto se incitat (B. G. 3.12)
    
  • (ambiguous) to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
  • (ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
    

alo

1. yawn

From Proto-Germanic *alu. Cognate with Old English ealu, Middle Dutch ale, Old High German al-, Old Norse ǫl (Swedish öl).

alo n

1. beer, ale

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈa.lʲɔ]

alo

1. (Przemyśl) synonym of dalej (“come on”)

   Alo złodzieje do pieca. ― Come on, thieves, to the furnace.

• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “alo”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332

• Rhymes: -alu
• Homophone: halo
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

alo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alar

Borrowed from French allô.

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/

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• Rhymes: -o

alo

1. hello (when answering the telephone)

• “alo”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp.

alo

1. smooth, soft side of a thing

   Antonym: tua (“rougher side”, literally “the back”)

2. stomach; belly

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qadep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

alo

1. niece, nephew (child of older sibling)

   Synonyms: kaponakan, suan

• "ALO", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: a‧lo

alò (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. cheer; consolation given (for the disappointed, anxious, disconsolate, etc.)

   Synonym: aliw

2. act of cheering up someone

   Synonym: pag-alo

3. substitute for a disappointment to cheer up someone (with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)

   Synonyms: pang-alo, panlibang

4. act of calming down someone (especially a crying child, with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)
5. lullaby; cradle song

   Synonyms: oyayi, aloy, indayanin, hele

• libang

• loa, ola, Lao

From Proto-North Halmahera *'alo ("cold").

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa.lo/

alo

1. (stative) to be cold

   ake alo ― the water is cold

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.lo]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro. Cognates include Hawaiian alo and Samoan alo.

alo

1. front
2. belly of an animal
3. upper side of a leaf

alo

1. (intransitive, + ki) to face
2. (transitive) to be engaged in
3. (intransitive) to pay attention

From Proto-Polynesian *qalo. Cognates include Tuvaluan alo and Samoan alo.

alo

1. (intransitive) to row, paddle
2. (transitive) to fan

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 13

Borrowed from French allô. The stress on the first syllable and the palatalization of the /l/ are not readily explained.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlʲo/

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alo

1. hello (only when picking up the phone)

alo

1. at any rate
2. in any event