avo

See also: avó, avô, avo-, -avo, and AVO

English

Pronunciation

Noun

avo (plural avos)

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.

Etymology 2

Clipping of avocado.

Noun

avo (plural avos)

  1. (informal, Australia, South Africa) Clipping of avocado.
    • 2007, Ken Albertsen, Farmsteading in Thailand (page 68)
      Given the challenges of trying to propagate avocados, one might wonder why we don't simply get hold of seeds and/or nursery starts and go that route – especially since avos tend to grow somewhat 'true to seed.'

Anagrams

Coastal Kadazan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habəl (“weave cloth”).

Verb

avo

  1. to weave

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈavo/
  • Rhymes: -avo
  • Audio(file)

Noun

avo (accusative singular avon, plural avoj, accusative plural avojn)

  1. grandfather
    Mia avo estas la patro de mia patro. ― My grandfather is the father of my father.
  2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) old man
    • 2009, “Fek al Esperanto! [Fuck Esperanto!]”, in Fek al Esperanto!‎, performed by La Pafklik:
      Mi parolas pri merda lingvo
      Elpensita de stulta avo
      I'm talking about a shitty language
      Thought up by a stupid old man

Derived terms

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑʋo̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑʋo
  • Syllabification(key): a‧vo

Noun

avo

  1. Abbreviation of avokysymys.

Declension
Inflection of avo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative avo avot
genitive avon avojen
partitive avoa avoja
illative avoon avoihin
singular plural
nominative avo avot
accusative nom. avo avot
gen. avon
genitive avon avojen
partitive avoa avoja
inessive avossa avoissa
elative avosta avoista
illative avoon avoihin
adessive avolla avoilla
ablative avolta avoilta
allative avolle avoille
essive avona avoina
translative avoksi avoiksi
instructive — avoin
abessive avotta avoitta
comitative — avoineen
Possessive forms of avo (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person avoni avomme
2nd person avosi avonne
3rd person avonsa

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto avo (“grandfather, grandparent”), Italian avo, Spanish abuelo and French aïeul, from Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈavo/

Noun

avo (plural avi)

  1. grandparent

Derived terms
  • avino (“grandmother”)
  • avulo (“grandfather”)
  • geavi (“grandfathers and grandmothers”)
  • preavino (“great-grandmother”)
  • preavo (“great-grandparent”)
  • preavulo (“great-grandfather”)
  • pregeavi (“great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin avus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os. Compare Portuguese avô (“grandfather”) and avó (“grandmother”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈa.vo/
  • Rhymes: -avo
  • Hyphenation: à‧vo

Noun

avo m (plural avi, feminine ava)

  1. ancestor, forefather
    Synonyms: antenato, ascendente

Derived terms

Anagrams

Ivatan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Yami avo.

Noun

avo

  1. ash

Latin

Noun

avō

  1. dative/ablative singular of avus

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abaw; cognate with Javanese ambo.

Adjective

avo

  1. high
  2. lofty, eminent

Portuguese

Etymology

From the ending of [oit]avo.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈa.vu/

  • Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
  • Hyphenation: a‧vo

Noun

avo m (plural avos)

  1. one of fractions/equal parts of a unit divided in more than 10 equal parts
    Doze avos de 240 são 20.
    A twelfth of 240 is 20.
    Três quinze avos = 3/15.
    Three fifteenths = 3/15

References
  1. “avo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “avo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Ivatan avo.

Noun

avo

  1. ash
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