pareo
English
Etymology
From Tahitian pāreu
Noun
pareo (plural pareos)
- A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
- […] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough.
- 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:
- “Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.”
- […]
- “I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pāzēō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- (“protect”). Cognates of Old Armenian հայիմ (hayim), Albanian pashë.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.re.oː/
Inflection
- The only passive forms attested in Latin are the third-person singular forms.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- pareo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pareo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pareo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
- (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
- (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
- (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pāreō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 445
Spanish
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