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Chinese
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Etymology
From clipping of English associate degree.
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Noun
asso
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) associate degree
Italian
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Noun
asso m (plural assi)
- ace (all senses)
- (dice games, dominoes) a piece or side having a single dot
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Latin
Etymology
From assus (“roasted”) + -ō.
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Verb
assō (present infinitive assāre, perfect active assāvī, supine assātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to roast, broil
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References
- “asso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old Spanish
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asso
- Contraction of a + so. (to his/for his or to her/for her)
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v.
e por eſſol dizen ualle lȧcmm. q̇ allẏ ploro adȧ. aſſo fijo abel.- And that is why it is called valle lacrimarum , for there Adam wept for his son Abel.
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asso
- nominative singular of assa
Portuguese
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asso
- first-person singular present indicative of assar