aro

Clipping of aromantic. Coined on the Internet in the 2010s.

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aro (comparative more aro, superlative most aro)

1. (slang, neologism) Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction).
   • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:

     For ace and aro people, the possibilities for diverse relationships are endless, despite how pop culture often brands our identity as restrictive and confined.

   • 2017 October 26, Melissa Reph, “You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'”, in The Muhlenberg Weekly, Muhlenberg College, page 3:

     For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.

   • 2018 November 29, Alexis Stark, “A-spectrum student experiences on MSU's campus”, in The State News, Michigan State University, page 5:

     This provides a home base for people looking to learn more about ace and aro identities.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro.

aro (plural aros)

1. (slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic.
   • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:

     While aces and aros can often be a misunderstood demographic in the queer community and outside of it, information about our identities is making its way into more conversations.

   • 2018 October 19, Isabel Nathan, “Asexuals, you are not alone”, in Washington Blade, page 20:

     Now most of my social circle is made up of other aces and aros.

   • 2019 October 24, Chelaine Kirsh, “Let's talk about aces, baby”, in The Sheaf, University of Saskatchewan, page 11:

     Building off from this calling card, aros have a more obscure variation of this where they don white rings.

• ace

• AOR, AoR, OAR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, oar, ora

• IPA^(key): /aˈro/, [ʔʌˈɾɔ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ro

aró f 

1. bite (act of biting)

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

aro m (plural aro, definite arua)

1. Dogançe form of aeroplan
2. Dogançe form of arixhi

• Haxhihasani, Qemal (1964) “Elemente nga fjalori i dogançes, fragmente bisedash dhe tekste në këtë të folme”, in Studime filologjike‎, number III, page 149

• IPA^(key): /aɾo/ [a.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Hyphenation: a‧ro

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

aro inan

1. time, season
2. age, era

   Erdi Aroa ― Middles Ages

3. (Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin) weather

From Spanish aro (“ring”).[1]

aro inan

1. wreath, garland
2. ring, circle

• "aro" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “aro” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Back-formation from -aro (“collection”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈaro]
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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: a‧ro

aro (accusative singular aron, plural aroj, accusative plural arojn)

1. bunch

   aro da kliŝaĵoj pri kaj Eŭropo kaj la nova traktato ― a bunch of clichés about both Europe and the new treaty

• ariĝi

From Proto-Finnic *aro (compare Estonian aru), probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arɜ (compare Erzya аразь (araź, “lack”), Northern Khanty [script needed] (wuri), Northern Mansi [script needed] (ūraj)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑro/, [ˈɑ̝ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑro
• Syllabification^(key): a‧ro

aro

1. steppe
2. (dialectal) humid or swampy meadow or plain

• “aro”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022, →ISSN.

• “aro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• ora

Unclear. Perhaps from local Medieval Latin arum (“monastical farmland”), from Latin arvum, from arvus, with posterior semantic evolution "lands of a monastery" > "border" > "ring". Alternatively, from a substrate language.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɾʊ]

aro m (plural aros)

1. hoop, circle, ring

   Synonyms: anel, cerco, círculo

2. handle (round)

   Synonym: anca

3. loon (bird)

• “aro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

ayo

From Proto-Tani *rjo, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej. Cognate with Tibetan ལྕེ (lce), Garo sre and Chinese 舌 (shé).

aro

1. tongue

Probably borrowed from Bengali আর (ar).

aro

1. and, in addition to

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 337

arô

1. leprosy

aro

1. first-person singular present indicative of arare

• Ora, ora

From Proto-Italic *araō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h₂erh₃-. The root-final laryngeal was lost in the Proto-Indo-European verb, but was restored in Proto-Italic.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Lithuanian arti, and Old English erian (archaic English ear).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.roː/, [ˈäroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ro/, [ˈäːro]

arō (present infinitive arāre, perfect active arāvī, supine arātum); first conjugation

1. to plough, till; to cultivate land, farm; to acquire by tillage
2. (of age) to draw furrows over the body, wrinkle

• “aro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• aro in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

aro

1. defense; protection

aro

1. (dialectal, Betsimisaraka) Synonym of roa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu.

aro

1. pestle
2. pole for pounding rice

Unknown.

arò

1. fog

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp (“front, facing part”).

aro

1. front (facing side)

   Kua maringi i a koe ki runga i to aro.

   You've spilt it down your front.

2. front (weather)

   Ko te paenga e tūtaki ai ētahi hau whakapipi e rua, ka kīia he aro.

   The boundary where two air masses meet is called a front.

aro (passive arohia or arongia or arotia)

1. (transitive) to turn toward something or someone

   Me aro te kaikōrero ki te hunga turi, kia kite ai rātou i tōna waha e kōrero na.

   The speaker should face toward the deaf people so that they can see her mouth when she is talking.

• “aro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Pre-Nauruan *rua-ua, from Proto-Micronesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑro]

aro

1. two

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈɾoː/

aro m (Arabic spelling ئارۆ)

1. Alternative form of arû (“cucumber”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “aro”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 12

Same as arn.

aro m

1. eagle

• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: a‧ro

From Old Galician-Portuguese aro of uncertain origin, probably from Latin arvum (“field”) with the initial meaning of outskirts and later rim, since those where usually circular in shape. First attested in c. 13th century.[1] Cognate with Spanish aro and Galician aro.

aro m (plural aros)

1. any large circular band of material
   1. hoop (circular band of metal used to bind a barrel)
   2. rim (outer edge of a wheel)

      aro de propulsão ― wheelchair's pushrim

   3. the frame of eyeglasses

      Synonym: armação

   4. juggling ring

      Synonym: argola

   5. cheesevat

      Synonym: cincho

2. (archaic) outskirts (the region surrounding a city)

   Synonym: periferia

Learned borrowing from Latin arum.

• arão, arum, árum, jarro, jaro

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum (any plant in the genus Arum)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aro

1. first-person singular present indicative of arar

• “aro” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “aro” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “aro” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp (“front, facing part”).

aro

1. front (facing side)

   ki te aro o ― to the front of

• “aro”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

aro m

1. Alternative form of arro (“flour”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾo/ [ˈa.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: a‧ro

Unknown origin.

aro m (plural aros)

1. hoop
2. large ring
3. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay) earring

   Synonyms: arete, pendiente

• anillo
• argolla
• sortija

Borrowed from Latin arum.

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum lily

• jaro, yaro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aro

1. first-person singular present indicative of arar

• “aro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Finnic *hara +‎ -o. Related to Finnish hara and Estonian haru.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑro/, [ˈɑro]
• Rhymes: -ɑro
• Hyphenation: a‧ro

aro

1. rake

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “aro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadu, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadu. Cognate with Puyuma sadru and Limos Kalinga adu.

aro

1. many; a lot

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾō/

aro

1. cymbal

   wọ́n ń lu aro

   They are playing the cymbal

From a- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ rò (“to say, to lament”)

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾò/

arò

1. dirge, lamentation; usually during a funeral

• ìdárò

(types of funeral dirges)

• ògbérè
• òkú-pípè
• ìrèmọ̀jé
• ìgbálá

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾó/

aró

1. a type of yam; Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata

   Synonym: iṣu aró

• iṣu (“yam”)

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾó/

aró

1. dye; (in particular) indigo dye

   Synonym: ẹ̀lú

2. (by extension) dark blue; indigo

• aláró (“someone who makes or sells dye”)
• aró dídá (“dyeing”)
• Ilé Aró (“a nickname for the town of Osogbo”)