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English
Etymology
Probably related to Portuguese milho (“millet”). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.
Noun
milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)
- (US) sorghum
1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight […]
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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
milo
- Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)
Esperanto
Etymology
From mil + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)
- thousand, a group of one thousand of something
- 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.
El ĉiu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ĵetadis en la teron, apenaŭ unu ricevis radikojn.- Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.
Italiot Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon).
Noun
milo n
- apple
Korak
Noun
milo
- wild chicken
Coordinate terms
- titer (“domesticated chicken”)
Further reading
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.
Noun
milo m
- apple
- apple tree
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Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mîlo/
- Hyphenation: mi‧lo
Adverb
mȉlo (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)
- dearly, kindly, cordially
Adjective
milo
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mio
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.
Pronunciation
Noun
mílo n
- soap
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Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Adverb
mílo
- movingly, touchingly
- mildly, gently
- leniently
Further reading
- “milo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
milo
- plural of mlo