apo

apo

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ambul terms

apo (not comparable)

1. (biochemistry, of a protein) In an inactive, unbound state
   • 2009 January 30, Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer, “BIOCHEMISTRY: Unfolding the Secrets of Calmodulin”, in Science‎^[1]:

     In this scenario, unbound proteins are predominantly in the ligand-free ("apo") structure.

apo (plural apos)

1. (biochemistry) Clipping of apolipoprotein.

• apo koinou

• POA, Pa-O, PAO, AOP, poa, OPA, OAP, Pao, Pa'O

apó

1. or

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980
• “apo”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “apo”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[3]

• hơpo

From Proto-Bahnaric *ʔmpəw, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mp(ɔ)ʔ (“to dream”); cognate with Halang hơpô, Koho mpao, Semai mpo, Pacoh apo/mpo, Old Mon 'ampo' (modern Mon လ္ပံ (kəpɔˀ)), Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] enfūa.

• IPA^(key): /ʔapɔː/

apo 

1. to dream

• IPA^(key): /apo/ [a.po]
• Rhymes: -apo, -o
• Hyphenation: a‧po

Perhaps from Spanish sapo, with simplification of los sapos to los apos. Alternatively, both words might have the same Pre-Roman origin.

apo anim

1. toad

• igel

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

apo inan

1. hoof

• “apo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “apo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔapoʔ/ [ˈʔa.poʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧po

apò (Basahan spelling ᜀᜉᜓ)

1. grandparent
2. goblin

   Synonym: duwende

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

• Hyphenation: a‧po
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpo/ [ʔɐˈpo]

apó

1. grandchild

apó

1. to have a grandchild or grandchildren

From English apple.

apo

1. (Alo) apple

• pomo (Sigave)

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apo

1. grandchild

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apó

1. grandchild

ápò

1. grandfather

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apo

1. grandchild

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

• Hyphenation: a‧po
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpo/, [ʔɐˈpu]

apó

1. (usually endearing, familiar) grandparent
2. (usually endearing, familiar) master; mistress
3. sir; madam
4. grandchild

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈapo/ [ˈa.po]
• Rhymes: -apo
• Syllabification: a‧po

apo (plural apo-apo)

1. (dialectal) flat-topped hills

• “apo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.po/
• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: à‧po

apo

1. alternative form of appo

• poa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpo/ [ʔʌˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: a‧po

apó (plural ap-apo)

1. grandchild
2. A respectful term of address to a person of higher rank or position; sir, madam

From Proto-Cariban *apô; compare Apalaí apo, Trió apë, Wayana apë, Waiwai apo, Akawaio apö, Pemon apue, Ye'kwana ajö, Yao (South America) iapelly.

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [aːpo]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [aʔpo]

apo (possessed apory)

1. arm

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 232
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “apo”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 91; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[5], Paris, 1956, page 92

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apo

1. grandchild

• apiō

Back formation of apiō.

The term is only attested in another form than the participle in the work of the grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus and in the Etymologiae of Saint Isidore of Seville.

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

apō (present infinitive apere, perfect active apī, supine aptum); third conjugation

1. to fasten; attach, connect; join, bind
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.15.1:

     […] linguam autem dēbēre aiunt non esse līberam nec vagam, sed vinclīs de pectore īmō ac dē corde aptīs movērī et quasi gubernārī.

     They say that the tongue should not be free and wandering, but that it should be moved and, so to say, steered by cords attached to the deep chest and heart.

   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 17, line 9:

     Apex, quod est sacerdotum īnsigne, dictus est ab eō, quod comprehendere antīquī vinculō apere dīcēbant. Unde aptus est, quī conventienter alicui iūnctus est.

     The apex, which is the ensign of the Flamen, is called so because of the fact that in, the old language, tying with a rope was called apere. Whence aptus is something which is conventiently joined to something.

• apīscor
• aptō
• aptus
• coepiō

• apex
• cōpula

• “apo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 120
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “apīscor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 47
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *apō, see also Old English apa, Old High German affo, Old Norse api.

apo m

1. ape

• Middle Low German: āpe
  • Low German: Ape
  • German Low German: Aap
  • Plautdietsch: Op

apo m

1. nominative singular of apa (“ap (root)”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaˈpo/ [ʔɐˈpo] (“grandchild”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -o
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔapoʔ/ [ˈʔaː.poʔ], (obsolete) /ˈʔapo/ [ˈʔaː.po] (“grandparent; ancestor; master; boss”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -apoʔ
• Syllabification: a‧po

apó (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜓ)

1. grandchild

   Synonym: (obsolete) apong totoo

apò (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜓ)

1. grandparent

   Synonyms: (male) lolo, (female) lola, (dialectal) nuno

2. ancestor

   Synonyms: nuno, ninuno, kanuno-nunuan

3. master

   Synonyms: amo, panginoon

4. boss; chief

   Synonyms: puno, hepe

• “apo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “apo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*apu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 303

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apó

1. grandchild

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

apo

1. grandchild

Cognate with Igala ákpó

• IPA^(key): /ā.k͡pó/

apó

1. quiver

   ikú ọdẹ ń bẹ nínú apó ― What will be the death of the hunter is lurking inside the quiver

• IPA^(key): /à.k͡pò/

àpò

1. The tree Cola acuminata, the kola nut comes from this plant

• IPA^(key): /à.k͡pò/

àpò

1. pocket, pouch, bag, pod
2. two hundred naira