provo

See also: Provo and provò

English

Noun

provo (plural provos)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Provo (“member of Dutch counterculture movement”)
    • 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 22:
      In this respect, they lag behind Amsterdam's provos, Western Europe's hippies, who once tried to prove a point about communal property: […]

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Verb

provo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of provar

Esperanto

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈprovo]
  • Rhymes: -ovo
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vo

Noun

provo (accusative singular provon, plural provoj, accusative plural provojn)

  1. attempt

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of provokaatio or provosointi. Alternatively a back-formation from provosoida.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈproʋo/, [ˈpro̞ʋo̞]
  • Rhymes: -oʋo
  • Syllabification(key): pro‧vo

Noun

provo

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of provokaatio.

Declension
Inflection of provo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative provo provot
genitive provon provojen
partitive provoa provoja
illative provoon provoihin
singular plural
nominative provo provot
accusative nom. provo provot
gen. provon
genitive provon provojen
partitive provoa provoja
inessive provossa provoissa
elative provosta provoista
illative provoon provoihin
adessive provolla provoilla
ablative provolta provoilta
allative provolle provoille
essive provona provoina
translative provoksi provoiksi
instructive — provoin
abessive provotta provoitta
comitative — provoineen
Possessive forms of provo (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person provoni provomme
2nd person provosi provonne
3rd person provonsa

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.vo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔvo
  • Hyphenation: prò‧vo

Verb

provo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of provare

Portuguese

Verb

provo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of provar
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