# povo
## English
### Alternative forms

* povvo

### Etymology

Probably a blend of poverty +‎ -o (diminutive suffix), owing to the term's Australian origins. Alternatively, borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Adjective

povo (comparative more povo, superlative most povo)
* (Australia, British, slang, derogatory) Poor, penniless.
    She went to some povo school down the street.
** 2003 October 8, Carol Midgley, “It’s Grim Up North”, in The Times, number 67888, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:This is where, 30 years ago, the docking industry was destroyed, leading to one of the lengthiest industrial disputes in British history, causing a 20 per cent unemployment rate and casting Liverpool as a "povo city" (the jobless rate now stands at a respectable 4 per cent.)
** 2013, Chris Lilley, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Ja'mie King, HBO:And he's really adorbs. I've been spending time with him and his community in this really povo area in the Western suburbs [sc. of Sydney]. I've been like reading to him and just chilling and stuff. It's legit a seriously tragic environment.
** 2017 June 17, Tara Kenny, “I was a poor kid at a wealthy private school. It gave me social mobility, but also a sense of shame”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:The school wasn’t exclusively populated by the children of haughty elitists who wanted their baby geniuses shielded from povo “flat rats” either, (although I suspect there was a bit of that). Many wonderful, open minded people sent their children there, including middle class families who struggled financially to secure that promised leg up in life.
** 2024 April 7, Eleanor Morgan, “Are you rich and ridiculous? TikTok comedian Shabaz Ali has you in his sights”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:It feels “weirdly liberating” for him to now have thousands of people commenting under his videos about how they’re proud to be povvo.

### Noun

povo (plural povos)
* (Australia, British, slang, derogatory) One who is poor, a pauper.
    This area is full of povos.

#### Synonyms

* pov

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From povi +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈpovo]
* Rhymes: -ovo
* Hyphenation: po‧vo

### Noun

povo (accusative singular povon, plural povoj, accusative plural povojn)
* ability

## Ido
### Noun

povo (plural povi)
* ability
* power

#### Synonyms

* (ability): habileso

#### Derived terms

* povar

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpo.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpo.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈpo.bu/ [ˈpo.βu]

### Noun

povo m (plural povos, metaphonic)
* people
* hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)
    Synonym: lugarejo
* (Brazil) mob

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:povo.

#### Related terms

* população, popular
* povoado, povoar
* póvoa

#### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: povu
* → Makalero: povu
* → Mirandese: pobo