halo

From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”); itself of unknown origin, see هلال‎ and תהילה‎. Used in English since 1563, sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪləʊ/
• (US) enPR: hāʹlō, IPA^(key): /ˈheɪloʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪləʊ

halo (plural halos or haloes)

1. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
2. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
3. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
4. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
5. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
6. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.

• (luminous disc around head of saints in paintings): aureole, nimbus

• halo effect
• halo nucleus
• neutron halo
• nuclear halo
• proton halo

halo (third-person singular simple present haloes, present participle haloing, simple past and past participle haloed)

1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

• halation

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “halo” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• hola

halo m

1. saliva

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of halar

• hawo

• Hyphenation: ha‧lo

For the second noun sense, the monitor lizard's timidity likened to cowardice.

halo

1. a monitor lizard
2. (historical) a cowardly tattooed man

halo

1. to mingle

halo c (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloerne)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.loː/

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halo m (plural halo's, diminutive halootje n)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon).
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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• IPA^(key): /ˈhalo/
• Hyphenation: ha‧lo
• Rhymes: -alo

halo (accusative singular halon, plural haloj, accusative plural halojn)

1. hall, very large room

• Rhymes: -ɑlo

halo

1. Indicative present connegative form of halkoa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of halkoa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of halkoa.

halo

1. halo

• haloilmiö

• Alho, alho, laho

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.lo/

halo m (plural halos)

1. Halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “halo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• hola, holà

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative of halar

halo (plural hali)

1. hall, very large room

halo

1. hello

Possibly a denominative verb from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-s-lo- (with spurious h), from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”), whence animus.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhaː.loː/, [ˈhaː.ɫoː]

hālō (present infinitive hālāre, perfect active hālāvī, supine hālātum); first conjugation

1. breathe
2. emit, exhale, release (gas or fragrance)
3. be fragrant
   • P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, Book I, ll. 416 ff.

     Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit sedesque revisit
     Laeta suas ubi templum illi centumque Sabaeo⁠⁠⁠
     Ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant

     [Venus] goes flying back to Paphos and sees happily again her seat
     Where there is a temple to her and a hundred altars
     That warmly glow with Sheban incense and are perfumed by fresh wreaths.

• adhālō
• anhēlo
• exhālō
• inhālō
• redhālō

• spīrō, feo

• halo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• halo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• halo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloene)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloar, definite plural haloane)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lɔ/

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From English hallo.

halo

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

From Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs).

halo n

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. buzz, hype

Indeclinable.

halo

1. vocative singular of hala

• halo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

halo m (plural halos)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. (religion, iconography) halo (luminous disc around the heads of saints)

• (atmospheric phenomenon): auréola
• (luminous disc around the heads of saints): auréola, nimbo

halo m (Cyrillic spelling хало)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

From English hallo.

halo (Cyrillic spelling хало)

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

• zdravo
• ćao

halo m (plural halos)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. halo (nimbus around the head of a holy figure)

halo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of halar.

halo c (definite singular halon, indefinite plural halor / haloer, definite plural halorna / haloerna)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

halò

1. mix

• laho