milo
English
Etymology
Probably related to Portuguese milho (“millet”). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.
Noun
milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)
Derived terms
See also
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /miˈl̪oʔ/
Esperanto
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): [ˈmilo]
- Rhymes: -ilo
- Hyphenation: mil‧o
Noun
milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)
- thousand, a group of one thousand of something
- 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.
- El ĉiu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ĵetadis en la teron, apenaŭ unu ricevis radikojn.
- Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.
- 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.
Korak
Coordinate terms
- titer (“domesticated chicken”)
Further reading
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.
Synonyms
- (apple tree) - pede 'e mele
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mîlo/
- Hyphenation: mi‧lo
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mìːlɔ/
Inflection
Neuter, hard | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | mílo | ||
gen. sing. | míla | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
mílo | míli | míla |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
míla | míl | míl |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
mílu | míloma | mílom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
mílo | míli | míla |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
mílu | mílih | mílih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
mílom | míloma | míli |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mìːlɔ/
Further reading
- “milo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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