# alo
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈlo/ [ʔʌˈlɔ]
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

### Noun

aló f
* popcorn

#### References

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

## Apatani
### Noun

alo
* day

### References

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

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔaloʔ/ [ˈʔa.l̪oʔ]
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

#### Noun

alò (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)
* (archaic) rest (relief from any activity)

##### Derived terms

* hingalo

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔalo/ [ˈʔa.l̪o]
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

#### Interjection

álo (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)
* Nonstandard form of halo (“quiet!; be quiet!”).

## Cèmuhî
### Numeral

alo
* two

## Classical Nahuatl
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈálo] (vowel length not well attested)

### Noun

alo anim (plural alomeh)
* (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.

### References

* Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Editorial Porrúa, page 4

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin āla (“wing”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈalo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alo
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

### Noun

alo (accusative singular alon, plural aloj, accusative plural alojn)
* side of the nostril, ala of the nose
* 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)
* 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)
* (chess) flank, wing (left or right side of the chessboard)

#### Derived terms

* aleto
* ĉirkaŭala
* frogalo

## Franco-Provençal
### Verb

alo (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)
* Alternative form of alar (“to go”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

## Galo
### Noun

alo
* salt

## Haitian Creole
### Alternative forms

* alò

### Etymology

From French allô (“hello”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.lo/

### Interjection

alo
* (telephony) hello

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.lo/, [ˈɐ.lo]

### Noun

alo
* front (facing side)
* 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.
* presence
    Eia ʻoe i ke alo o ka ʻaha.Here you are in the presence of the assembly.
* (geometry) face

#### Derived terms

* hoʻalo

#### References

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

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈalo/

### Noun

alo (plural ali)
* (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.

## Ilocano
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

### Noun

alo
* pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

## Italian
### Verb

alo
* first-person singular present indicative of alare

### Anagrams

* Lao, loa, olà

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

alō (present infinitive alere, perfect active aluī, supine altum or alitum); third conjugation
* to encourage or promote the development (of a thing): to foster, to further, to promote (something)
    Synonyms: foveō, iuvō, sublevō
* 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.
* (in a particular sense): to feed, to nourish, to nurture
    Synonyms: nūtriō, sagīnō, pāsco
* (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.

#### Usage notes

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”).

#### Derived terms

* alebria
* alescō
* aletūdō
* alibilis
* alica
* alimentum
* alimōnia
* almus
* altor
* altus
* coalō
* elementum

#### Related terms

* alicārius
* alimentārius
* alumnus

#### Descendants

* Italian: alere

### See also

* oleō

### References

* “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, 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)
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

## Neapolitan
### Noun

alo
* yawn

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *alu. Cognate with Old English ealu, Middle Dutch ale, Old High German al-, Old Norse ǫl (Swedish öl).

### Noun

alo n
* beer, ale

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Lesser Poland):
** (Przemyśl) IPA: [ˈa.lʲɔ]

### Interjection

alo
* (Przemyśl) Synonym of dalej (“come on”)
    Alo złodzieje do pieca. ― Come on, thieves, to the furnace.

### Further reading

* Aleksander Saloni (1908) “alo”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.lu/
* Rhymes: -alu
* Homophone: halo
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

### Verb

alo
* first-person singular present indicative of alar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French allô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈlo/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -o

### Interjection

alo
* hello (when answering the telephone)

### References

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

## Samoan
### Etymology

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

### Noun

alo
* smooth, soft side of a thing
    Antonym: tua (“rougher side”, literally “the back”)
* stomach; belly

#### References

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

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

alò (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜓ)
* cheer; consolation given (for the disappointed, anxious, disconsolate, etc.)
    Synonym: aliw
* act of cheering up someone
    Synonym: pag-alo
* substitute for a disappointment to cheer up someone (with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)
    Synonyms: pang-alo, panlibang
* act of calming down someone (especially a crying child, with kind words, toys, pacifier, milk, etc.)
* lullaby; cradle song
    Synonyms: oyayi, aloy, indayanin, hele

#### Derived terms

* aluan
* aluin
* pag-alo
* pang-alo
* tagaalo
* umalo

#### See also

* libang

### Anagrams

* loa, ola, Lao

## Ternate
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈ(ʔ)a.lo]

### Verb

alo
* (stative) to be cold
    ake alo ― the water is cold

#### Conjugation
### References

* 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

## Tokelauan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈa.lo]
* Hyphenation: a‧lo

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

alo
* front
* belly of an animal
* upper side of a leaf

#### Verb

alo
* (intransitive, + ki) to face
* (transitive) to be engaged in
* (intransitive) to pay attention

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

alo
* (intransitive) to row, paddle
* (transitive) to fan

##### Derived terms

* aloalo

#### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 13

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑlʲo/
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

alo
* hello (only when picking up the phone)

## Volapük
### Adverb

alo
* at any rate
* in any event