milo

Probably related to Portuguese milho (“millet”). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.

milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)

1. (US) sorghum
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:

     When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight […]

• milo disease

• stylo milo

• OIML, limo, moil

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /miˈl̪oʔ/

milo

1. Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

From mil +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: mil‧o

milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)

1. thousand, a group of one thousand of something
   • 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.

     El ĉiu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ĵetadis en la teron, apenaŭ unu ricevis radikojn.

     Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.

From Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon).

milo n

1. apple

milo

1. wild chicken

• titer (“domesticated chicken”)

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)

Genericized trademark Milo, Nestlé chocolate-flavoured product.

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈmilo/ [ˈmi.lo] (Malay-based)
  • Rhymes: -ilo

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈmajlo/ [ˈmai̯.lo] (English-based)
  • Rhymes: -ai̯lo
• Hyphenation: mi‧lo

milo (plural milo-milo)

1. (strictly) chocolate milk: specifically Milo's brand
2. (loosely) chocolate milk: from any brand

Inherited from Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

milo m

1. apple
2. apple tree

• (apple tree) - pede 'e mele

• IPA^(key): /mîlo/
• Hyphenation: mi‧lo

mȉlo (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)

1. dearly, kindly, cordially

milo (Cyrillic spelling мило)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mio

From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

• IPA^(key): /mìːlɔ/

mílo n

1. soap

• míliti

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• IPA^(key): /mìːlɔ/

mílo

1. movingly, touchingly
2. mildly, gently
3. leniently

• “milo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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milo

1. plural of mlo