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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian punto. Doublet of point and punctum.

Noun

punto (plural puntos)

1. (fencing) a point or hit

Derived terms

• punto diritto: a direct or straight hit
• punto reverso, punto riverso: a back-handed stroke

Anagrams

• Upton, not up, put on, put-on, ton-up, unpot, upon't

Esperanto

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?punto/
• Hyphenation: pun?to
• Rhymes: -unto

Noun

punto (accusative singular punton, plural puntoj, accusative plural puntojn)

1. lace (fabric)

Ido

Etymology

From English point, French point, German Punkt, Italian punto, Russian ????? (punkt), Spanish punto, all ultimately from Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pun.to/, /?pun.t?/

Noun

punto (plural punti)

1. (geometry, astronomy, typography, grammar, music, games) point; dot; position; period; small hole (as made by a needle or awl)

Derived terms

Italian

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pun?to

Etymology 1

From Latin punctum.

Noun

punto m (plural punti)

1. point (all senses), jot, iota
2. full stop, period
3. dot
4. instant (point in time)
5. (in the plural) points, score
6. (Tuscany) none
7. (baseball) run

Derived terms

Verb

punto

1. first-person singular present of puntare

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Latin punctus.

Verb

punto m (feminine singular punta, masculine plural punti, feminine plural punte)

1. past participle of pungere

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?punto/, [?p?n?.t?o]
• Rhymes: -unto
• Hyphenation: pun?to

Etymology 1

From Latin punctum.

Noun

punto m (plural puntos) (diminutive puntillo or puntito)

1. point (unit of measurement)

2. decimal, point (arithmetic symbol), period
3. (punto de encuentro) point, location, place
4. stitch
5. great surprise

Derived terms

Related terms

Interjection

¡punto!

1. that's it!

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

punto

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

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pun?to

Noun

punto

1. point
2. (sociolinguistics) accent

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Etymology 1

From Balti ????? (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan ????? (po lo), ?????? (pho long), ?????? (spo lo, “ball”).

Noun

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. The ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

Noun

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• polo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

Contraction

polo n (masculine pol, feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Etymology 1

From English polo shirt.

Noun

polo

1. a polo shirt

Etymology 2

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo

1. a ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo

1. a dress shirt

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?polo]

Etymology 1

Adverb

polo

1. half

Etymology 2

Noun

polo n

1. polo (a ball game played on horseback)

   Synonym: pólo

Further reading

• polo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• polo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

polo

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

   Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

Further reading

• “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -olo

Noun

polo (accusative singular polon, plural poloj, accusative plural polojn)

1. a Pole (person from Poland)

Hypernyms

• e?ropano (“a European”)

Related terms

• pola (“Polish”)
• pole (“in Polish; like a Pole”)
• Polio, Pollando (“Poland”)

Finnish

(index po)

Etymology

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polo/, [?po?lo?]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: po?lo

Noun

polo

1. poor (one to be pitied)

   poikapolo

   poor boy

Declension

Synonyms

• poloinen

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

French

Pronunciation

Noun

polo m

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

Further reading

• “polo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

Contraction of preposition por (“through, by, for”) + alternative form of the masculine singular definite article lo (“the”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?l?]

Contraction

polo (feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. through the; by the; for the

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:

     Iten o par dos polos et polas, seis blanquas et dous coroados.

     Item, the pair of chickens and chicks, six white coins and a crown

   Synonyms: pito, pitiño

Related terms

• pola

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

References

• “polo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “polo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “polo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “polo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English pole, French pôle, German Pol, Italian polo, Russian ?????? (póljus), Spanish polo, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po.lo/

Noun

polo (plural poli)

1. pole (point where an axis meets the surface of a rotating body)

Derived terms

• polala
• polara

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.lo/
• Rhymes: -?lo

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (countable) pole (geographic, electrical or magnetic)

Related terms

• polare

See also

• pollo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (uncountable) polo (sport)

Related terms

• polistico

References

Latin

Noun

pol?

1. dative singular of polus
2. ablative singular of polus

References

• polo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Noun

polo m (invariable)

1. polo

Related terms

• ?denspolo

Lower Sorbian

Noun

polo n (diminutive polack)

1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vannpolo

References

• “polo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vasspolo

References

• “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus (“pole”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole (geographic, magnetic)
2. (complex analysis) pole
3. (figuratively) extreme opposite

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti ????? (pulu, “ball”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Doublet of polho, which came from Spanish.

Alternative forms

• pôlo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. eyas

Related terms

• poleiro

Etymology 4

From Old Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• Homophone: pulo

Contraction

polo m (plural polos, feminine pola, feminine plural polas)

1. (obsolete) Contraction of por (“by; through; for”) + o (“the”)

   Synonym: pelo

Ramoaaina

Noun

polo

1. liquid

Further reading

• Robyn Davies and Lisbeth Fritzell, Duke of York Grammar Essentials (Ramoaaina) (October 1992)

Romanian

Etymology

From French polo.

Noun

polo n (uncountable)

1. polo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polo/, [?po.lo]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Derived terms

Related terms

• polar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (uncountable)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

Derived terms

• polo acuático
• waterpolo

Etymology 3

Originally a trademark.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly

   Synonym: paleta

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

polo

1. (Obsolete spelling of pulo) First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of polir.

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology 1

See main entry.

Noun

polo

1. Obsolete form of pulo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• IPA^(key): /?polo/

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)
2. polo shirt
   • 1981, Clodualdo Del Mundo, Writing for Film

     Maraming reklamo si Arni tungkol sa initiation; sisisihin pa nito si Sid dahil ito ang pumilit sa kanyang sumali sa frat. Magsusuot ng polo si Arni. Halos hindi niya maigalaw ang kanyang braso.

     Arni have a lot of complaints about the initiation; he even blamed Sid for forcing him to join the frat. Arni would wear a polo shirt. He could almost not move his arms.

Derived terms

• polo barong

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (pólo).

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)

Inflection

Derived terms

• vezipolo

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika