alo

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/ [ʔʌˈlɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

aló f 

1. popcorn

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

alo

1. day

• P. T. Abraham, Apatani-English-Hindi Dictionary (1987)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔa.l̪oʔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

alò (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. (archaic) rest (relief from any activity)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalo/ [ˈʔa.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

álo (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. Nonstandard form of halo (“quiet!; be quiet!”).

alo

1. two

• IPA^(key): [ˈálo] (vowel length not well attested)

alo anim (plural alomeh)

1. (it is) a scarlet macaw; Ara macao.
   • 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, pt 2, f. 4r. col. 1:

     Alo. papagayo grande.

     Alo. a large parrot.

• 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]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

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 right side of the chessboard)

alo (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of alar (“to go”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

alo

1. salt

• alò

From French allô (“hello”).

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

alo

1. (telephony) hello

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/, [ˈɐ.lo]

alo

1. front (facing side)
2. face

   Ua kipaku aku ʻoe iaʻu i kēia lā mai ke alo aku o ka honua nei.

   You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth.

3. presence

   Eia ʻoe i ke alo o ka ʻaha.

   Here you are in the presence of the assembly.

4. (geometry) face

• hoʻalo

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “alo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈalo/

alo (plural ali)

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

• Lao, loa, olà

From Proto-Italic *alō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi (“grow, nourish”). Related to *oleō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.loː/, [ˈäɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo/, [ˈäːlo]

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

1. to encourage or promote the development (of a thing): to foster, to further, to promote (something)

   Synonyms: foveō, iuvō, sublevō

2. to cause (a thing) to continue over time: to further, to maintain, to sustain

   Synonyms: subsistō, sufferō, sustentō, sustineō

   • Attributed to Cato Maior by Livius in Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXXIV, 9.12

     Bellum sē ipsum alet.

     The war will further itself.

3. (in a particular sense): to feed, to nourish, to nurture

   Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāsco

4. (pertaining to living things): to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.)

   Hominum gratia generatur, aluntur bestiae.

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

Alō refers to the transitive act of causing someone or something to grow or develop. There was a companion lost stative to alō in Old Latin *aleō (“I grow up, I develop, I mature”), which remained effective in Classical Latin through its derived verb alēscō (“I grow, I grow up, I increase”).

Conjugation of alō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	alō	alis	alit	alimus	alitis	alunt
	imperfect	alēbam	alēbās	alēbat	alēbāmus	alēbātis	alēbant
	future	alam	alēs	alet	alēmus	alētis	alent
	perfect	aluī	aluistī	aluit	aluimus	aluistis	aluērunt, aluēre
	pluperfect	alueram	aluerās	aluerat	aluerāmus	aluerātis	aluerant
	future perfect	aluerō	alueris	aluerit	aluerimus	alueritis	aluerint
passive	present	alor	aleris, alere	alitur	alimur	aliminī	aluntur
	imperfect	alēbar	alēbāris, alēbāre	alēbātur	alēbāmur	alēbāminī	alēbantur
	future	alar	alēris, alēre	alētur	alēmur	alēminī	alentur
	perfect	altus or alitus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	altus or alitus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	altus or alitus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	alam	alās	alat	alāmus	alātis	alant
	imperfect	alerem	alerēs	aleret	alerēmus	alerētis	alerent
	perfect	aluerim	aluerīs	aluerit	aluerīmus	aluerītis	aluerint
	pluperfect	aluissem	aluissēs	aluisset	aluissēmus	aluissētis	aluissent
passive	present	alar	alāris, alāre	alātur	alāmur	alāminī	alantur
	imperfect	alerer	alerēris, alerēre	alerētur	alerēmur	alerēminī	alerentur
	perfect	altus or alitus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	altus or alitus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	ale	—	—	alite	—
	future	—	alitō	alitō	—	alitōte	aluntō
passive	present	—	alere	—	—	aliminī	—
	future	—	alitor	alitor	—	—	aluntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		alere	aluisse	altūrum esse, alitūrum esse	alī	altum esse, alitum esse	altum īrī, alitum īrī
participles		alēns	—	altūrus, alitūrus	—	altus, alitus	alendus, alundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		alendī	alendō	alendum	alendō	altum, alitum	altū, alitū

• alicārius
• alimentārius

• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], 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

• Rhymes: -alu
• Homophone: halo
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

alo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alar

Borrowed from French allô.

• IPA^(key): /aˈlo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o

alo

1. hello (when answering the telephone)

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

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp.

alo

1. smooth, soft side of a thing

   Antonym: tua (“rougher side”, literally “the back”)

2. stomach; belly

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qadep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: a‧lo

alò (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)

1. cheer; consolation given (for the disappointed, anxious, disconsolate, etc.)

   Synonym: aliw

2. act of cheering up someone

   Synonym: pag-alo

3. substitute for a disappointment to cheer up someone (with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)

   Synonyms: pang-alo, panlibang

4. act of calming down someone (especially a crying child, with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)
5. lullaby; cradle song

   Synonyms: oyayi, aloy, indayanin, hele

• libang

• loa, ola, Lao

From Proto-North Halmahera *alo ("cold").

• IPA^(key): [ˈ(ʔ)a.lo]

alo

1. (stative) to be cold

   ake alo ― the water is cold

Conjugation of alo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	toalo	foalo	mialo
2nd	noalo	nialo
3rd	Masculine	oalo	ialo, yoalo†
Feminine	moalo
Neuter	ialo
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
• Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎^[3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.lo]
• Hyphenation: a‧lo

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro. Cognates include Hawaiian alo and Samoan alo.

alo

1. front
2. belly of an animal
3. upper side of a leaf

alo

1. (intransitive, + ki) to face
2. (transitive) to be engaged in
3. (intransitive) to pay attention

From Proto-Polynesian *qalo. Cognates include Tuvaluan alo and Samoan alo.

alo

1. (intransitive) to row, paddle
2. (transitive) to fan

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 13

Borrowed from French allô. The stress on the first syllable and the palatalization of the /l/ are not readily explained.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlʲo/

• Audio:

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alo

1. hello (only when picking up the phone)

alo

1. at any rate
2. in any event