paro

• (apocopic) par
• para
• paroho

• IPA^(key): /pàꜛɾó/

paro (Kana spelling パロ)

1. (anatomy) mouth

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

paro

1. Romanization of ᬧᬭᭀ

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

Borrowed from German Paar, ultimately from Latin pār (“equal, like, suitable”). Cognate with English peer.

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: pa‧ro

paro (accusative singular paron, plural paroj, accusative plural parojn)

1. pair (two similar or identical things)
2. couple (two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship)

   Hyponyms: geedzoj (“(mixed-sex) married couple”), gefianĉoj (“engaged couple”)

• -aro (“group, collection”)

• pare (“pairwise, in a pair”)

Popularised by rapper Kery James in 2009.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁo/

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paro (invariable)

1. (slang) neurotic, crazy
   • 2013, “Dernière danse”, in Mini World, performed by Indila:

     Sans lui je suis un peu paro / Je déambule seule dans le métro

     Without him I go a bit crazy / I wander on my own in the metro

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of parir

• IPA^(key): /ˈparo/

paro (plural pari)

1. couple, pair

• IPA^(key): /ˈparo/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ro
• Rhymes: -ro, -o

paro

1. Nonstandard form of paruh (“half”).

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parare

• apro, opra, rapo, rapò

paro

1. Romanization of ꦥꦫꦺꦴ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ro/,

From Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-o (“providing”), from *perh₃- (“to grant”). Cognate with pariō (“to produce”), properus (“ready”), Old Irish ernaid (“to grant, bestow”), Sanskrit पृणाति (pṛṇā́ti, “to grant, bestow”), Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “to give, furnish”).^[1]

parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum); first conjugation

2. to arrange, order, contrive, design

   Synonyms: īnstruō, compōnō

3. to provide, furnish, prepare

   Synonyms: exōrnō, adōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, apparō, īnstruō, accingō, suggerō, comparō, afferō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4:

     munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare

     to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of grain, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour

4. to resolve, purpose, decide

   Synonyms: statuō, cernō, dēcernō, cōnstituō, placeō

5. to get, acquire, obtain, procure, make

   Synonyms: acquīrō, cōnsequor, pariō, lucror, adipīscor, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, potior, inveniō, comparō, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō

   Antonym: āmittō

   amīcōs parāre ― to make friends; to befriend

6. (Medieval Latin) to adorn, ornament
7. (Medieval Latin) to learn by heart

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• → Albanian: proj
• Italian: parare
• Old French: parer
  • French: parer
  • → English: pare
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: parar
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: parar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: parar
  • Galician: parar
  • Portuguese: parar
    • → Afrikaans: parra
• Spanish: parar
• → Welsh: paratoi

From pār (“equal”).

parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum); first conjugation

1. to equalize, make equal

• “paro1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paro2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paro3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• paro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to prepare to do a thing: parare with Inf.
    
  • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
    
  • to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
    
  • to take measures for..: parare aliquid
    
  • to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
    
  • to make preparations for a marriage: nuptias parare
    
  • to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
    
  • to make preparations for war: bellum parare
    
  • (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
    
  • (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be ready to endure anything: omnia perpeti paratum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a match for the enemy: parem (opp. imparem) esse hosti
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “paro”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

• páro

paro m

1. pair

   Synonyms: paréglia, cócchia

paro

1. Alternative spelling of parwa

paro

1. masculine nominative singular of para (“other”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.rɔ/
• Rhymes: -arɔ
• Syllabification: pa‧ro

paro

1. vocative singular of para

• Rhymes: -aɾu

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾo/
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: pa‧ro

Deverbal from parar.

paro m (plural paros)

1. stagnation, freeze up
2. unemployment

   Synonyms: cesantía, desempleo

   en paro ― unemployed

3. strike (work stoppage)

   Synonym: huelga

4. cardiac arrest, ellipsis of paro cardiaco
5. (Mexico) pretext

   Synonyms: excusa, pretexto

   Puros paros para no trabajar

   Just pretexts for not working

6. (Mexico) a favour, help, cover-up, (preceded by hacerle un, hacerme un, to indicate "to do someone a favour", "to help someone", "to protect someone by lying")

   Hazme un paro, no le digas que estoy aquí

   Protect me, do not tell him/her that I am here

   Hazle un paro a Juan, tiene que meter todas esas cajas

   Help Juan, he must store all those boxes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paro

1. first-person singular present indicative of parir

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