milo

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See also: Milo, Mîlo, mīlo, miło, and mīļo

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)

  1. (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

  1. Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

Esperanto

Etymology

From mil +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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Noun

milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)

  1. 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

  1. apple

Korak

Noun

milo

  1. 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

  1. apple
  2. apple tree

Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mîlo/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧lo

Adverb

mȉlo (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)

  1. dearly, kindly, cordially

Adjective

milo

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mio

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

Pronunciation

Noun

mílo n

  1. soap
Inflection
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Neuter, hard
nom. sing. mílo
gen. sing. míla
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		mílo míli míla
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		míla míl míl
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		mílu míloma mílom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		mílo míli míla
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		mílu mílih mílih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		mílom míloma míli
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Adverb

mílo

  1. movingly, touchingly
  2. mildly, gently
  3. leniently

Further reading

  • “milo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

milo

  1. plural of mlo
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