alo

• IPA^(key): /alo/ (vowel lengths not well-attested)
• IPA^(key): [ˈá.lo]

alo (animate, plural alomeh)

1. A species of macaw; Ara macao, the scarlet macaw.
   • 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, f. 4r. col. 1.

     Alo. papagayo grande.

     (Alo. a large parrot.)

• Scarlet macaw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ara macao on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• 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/
• Hyphenation: a‧lo
• Rhymes: -alo

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 ride side of the chessboard)

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp (compare Indonesian hadap, Malay hadap, Tagalog harap).

alo

1. front (facing side)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/

alo (plural ali)

1. (anatomy) wing
   • 1913, Progreso, vol. 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

• olà

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.loː/, [ˈa.ɫoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/, [ˈaː.lo]

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

1. I foster, nourish
   • Attributed to Cato Maior by Livius in Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXXIV, 9.12

     Bellum se ipsum alet.

     The war will nourish itself.

2. I feed, I maintain, I develop

   Hominum gratia generantur, aluntur bestiae.

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

There are two possible conjugations; the difference lies within the non-finite and supine forms.

• alicārius
• alimentārius

• Portuguese: alimentar

• 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, 1883–1887)
• alo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

alo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of alar

Borrowed from French allô.

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/
• Rhymes: -o

alo

1. hello (when answering the telephone)

• alo in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from French allô.

• IPA^(key): /alo/

alo

1. hello (only when picking up the phone)

alo

1. at any rate
2. in any event