almo

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈmo/, [ʔʌlˈmɔ]
  • Hyphenation: al‧mo

Noun

almó f 

  1. waste

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 51

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin almus (nourishing; kind), from Proto-Italic *almos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elmos, derived from the root *h₂el- (to grow, nourish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal.mo/
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Hyphenation: àl‧mo

Adjective

almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almi, feminine plural alme)

  1. (literary) nourishing; life-giving
    Synonym: (literary) altore
  2. (by extension, literary) great, noble, magnificent
    Synonyms: grande, magnifico, nobile

Further reading

  • almo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

almō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of almus

References

  • almo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • almo”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • almo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • almo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin almus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalmo/ [ˈal.mo]
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Syllabification: al‧mo

Adjective

almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almos, feminine plural almas)

  1. (poetic) nourishing
  2. (poetic) venerable

Further reading

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