different between apo vs aro

English

Adjective

apo (not comparable)

1. (biochemistry, of a protein) In an inactive, unbound state

Anagrams

• AOP, OAP, PAO, POA, Pa-O, Pao, poa

Bahnar

Alternative forms

• h?po

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *?mp?w, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mp(?)? (“to dream”); cognate with Halang h?pô, Koho mpao, Semai mpo, Pacoh apo/mpo, Old Mon 'ampo' (modern Mon ???? (k?p??)), Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] enf?a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap??/

Verb

apo 

1. to dream

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /a.po/

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Spanish sapo, with simplification of los sapos to los apos. Alternatively, both words might have the same Pre-Roman origin.

Noun

apo anim

1. toad

Declension

See also

• igel

Etymology 2

Noun

apo inan

1. hoof

Declension

Further reading

• “apo” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “apo” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Bikol Central

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apò

1. ancestor, forefather, progenitor

Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?po

Noun

apo

1. grandchild

Verb

apo

1. To have a grandchild or grandchildren.

East Futuna

Etymology

From English apple.

Noun

apo

1. (Alo) apple

Synonyms

• pomo (Sigave)

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ?ISBN

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apó

1. grandchild

Noun

ápò

1. grandfather

Ibaloi

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apo

1. grandchild

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?po
• IPA^(key): /?a?po/, [???pu]

Noun

apó

1. (usually endearing, familiar) grandparent
2. (usually endearing, familiar) master; mistress
3. sir; madam
4. grandchild

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.po/
• Hyphenation: à?po

Preposition

apo

1. Alternative form of appo

Kankanaey

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apo

1. grandchild

Kayapa Kallahan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apo

1. grandchild

Latin

Alternative forms

• api?

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ap?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ep- (“to get, grab”). Cognate with apex, Hittite ???????? (?app-, “to join, attach”), Ancient Greek ???? (hápt?, “I fasten”).

The term is only attested in another form than the participle in the work of the grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus and in the Etymologiae of Saint Isidore of Seville.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.po?/, [?äpo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.po/, [???p?]

Verb

ap? (present infinitive apere, perfect active ap?, supine aptum); third conjugation

1. I fasten; attach, connect; join, bind
   • 8th C. C.E., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 17, line 9:

     Apex, quod est sacerdotum ?nsigne, dictus est ab e?, quod comprehendere ant?qu? vincul? apere d?c?bant. Unde aptus est, qu? conventienter alicui i?nctus est.

     The apex, which is the ensign of the Flamen, is called so because of the fact that in, the old language, tying with a rope was called apere. Whence aptus is something which is conventiently joined to something.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ap?scor
• apt?
• aptus
• coepi?

Related terms

• apex
• c?pula

References

• apo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 120
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “ap?scor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 47
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *apô, whence also Old English apa, Old High German affo, Old Norse api.

Noun

apo m

1. ape

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ?pe
  • Low German: Ape
  • German Low German: Aap
  • Plautdietsch: Op

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apó (Baybayin spelling ???)

1. grandchild

Waray-Waray

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apó

1. grandchild

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”), from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal)”).

Noun

apo

1. grandchild

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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, Melissa Reph, "You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'", The Muhlenberg Weekly (Muhlenberg College), 26 October 2017, 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, Alexis Stark, "A-spectrum student experiences on MSU's campus", The State News (Michigan State University), 29 November 2018, 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.

Noun

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, Isabel Nathan, "Asexuals, you are not alone", Washington Blade, 19 October 2018, page 20:

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

   • 2019, Chelaine Kirsh, "Let's talk about aces, baby", The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan), 24 October 2019, page 11:

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

See also

• ace

Anagrams

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

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o/

Noun

aró f 

1. bite (act of biting)

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Basque

Noun

aro inan

1. age

References

• Gorka Aulestia, Linda White, Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aro/
• Hyphenation: a?ro
• Rhymes: -aro
• Audio:

Noun

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

1. bunch

Related terms

• ari?i

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aro (compare Estonian aru), probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ar? (compare Khanty [script needed] (ur?, ur?), Mansi [script needed] (or?j, or?j)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ro/, [??ro?]
• Rhymes: -?ro
• Syllabification: a?ro

Noun

aro

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

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ora

Garo

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Bengali ?? (ar).

Conjunction

aro

1. and, in addition to

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[2], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 337

Hiligaynon

Noun

arô

1. leprosy

Italian

Verb

aro

1. first-person singular present indicative of arare

Anagrams

• ora

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ara?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h?erh?-. The root-final laryngeal was lost in the Proto-Indo-European verb, but was restored in Proto-Italic.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (aró?), Old Church Slavonic ????? (orati), Lithuanian arti, and Old English erian (archaic English ear).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ro?/, [?ä?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ro/, [?????]

Verb

ar? (present infinitive ar?re, perfect active ar?v?, supine ar?tum); first conjugation

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Malagasy

Noun

aro

1. defense; protection

Adjective

aro

1. (dialectal, Betsimisaraka) Synonym of roa

Mansaka

Noun

aro

1. pestle
2. pole for pounding rice

Noun

arò

1. fog

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qad?p.

Noun

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 t?taki ai ?tahi hau whakapipi e rua, ka k?ia he aro.

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

Verb

aro

1. (transitive) to turn toward something or someone

   Me aro te kaik?rero ki te hunga turi, kia kite ai r?tou i t?na waha e k?rero na.

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

References

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

Nauruan

Etymology

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

Numeral

aro

1. two

Old High German

Etymology

Same as arn.

Noun

aro m

1. eagle

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.?u/
• Hyphenation: a?ro

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese aro of uncertain origin. Cognate with Spanish aro.

Noun

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)
   3. the frame of eyeglasses

      Synonym: armação

   4. juggling ring

      Synonym: argola

2. the region surrounding a city

   Synonym: periferia

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• arão, arum, árum, jarro, jaro

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum (any plant in the genus Arum)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

aro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of arar

Romani

Noun

aro m

1. flour

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?o/, [?a.?o]
• Rhymes: -a?o
• Hyphenation: a?ro

Etymology 1

Unknown origin.

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

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

   Synonyms: arete, pendiente

Derived terms

• arete

See also

• anillo
• argolla
• sortija

Etymology 2

From Latin arum.

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum lily

Alternative forms

• jaro, yaro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

aro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of arar.

Further reading

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

Yami

Etymology

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

Adjective

aro

1. many; a lot