viro

Aromanian

Noun

viro m (plural viradz)

1. whirlpool, vortex

   Synonym: vãltoari

Catalan

Verb

viro

1. first-person singular present indicative of virar

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
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• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: vi‧ro

Noun

viro (accusative singular viron, plural viroj, accusative plural virojn)

1. man (adult male human)

   Synonym: malino

   Hypernyms: homo, persono

   Coordinate terms: femino, virino

Antonyms

• virino
• homino (not a true antonym)

Derived terms

• vira (“(human) male”)
• vir-

Finnish

Etymology

See Viro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiro/,
• Rhymes: -iro
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧ro

Noun

viro

1. Estonian (language)

   Synonyms: eesti, eestin kieli, viron kieli

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• virolainen
• Viro

See also

• võro

Further reading

• “viro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

• rivo

Galician

Verb

viro

1. first-person singular present indicative of virar

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto viro, from Latin vir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviro/

Noun

viro (plural viri)

1. man

   Synonym: homulo

   Coordinate term: muliero

Derived terms

• virala (“manly, virile”)
• vireso (“manhood, manliness, virility”)

Ingrian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish viro.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiro/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiroi̯/,
• Rhymes: -iro, -iroi̯
• Hyphenation: vi‧ro

Noun

viro

1. (in the plural) Estonians
2. (in the singular) Estonian language
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Naapurikeeliin, suomen, viron ja vadjan keeliin kera iƶoran keeli ono siottu oman strukturan, fonettisen, äänisostavan, kautta, mut iƶoran keeleel ono suur yhtehös i karjalan keelen kera.

     The Ingrian language is related to its neighbouring languages, Finnish, Estonian and Votic, through own structure, that of phonetics, the inventory of sounds, but the Ingrian language has a strong connection with the Karelian language, too.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 669

Interlingua

Noun

viro (plural viros)

1. man

Synonyms

• homine
• masculo

Antonyms

• femina

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ro/
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: vì‧ro

Etymology 1

From Latin virum (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Noun

viro m (plural viri)

1. (poetic) man (a male adult)

   Synonyms: (archaic, regional) omo, uomo

   • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 34–36; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed ella: «O luce etterna del gran viro
     a cui Nostro Segnor lasciò le chiavi,
     ch’ei portò giù, di questo gaudio miro

     And she: "O eternal light of the great man to whom Our Lord left the keys he carried down of this miraculous joy"

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

viro

1. first-person singular present indicative of virare

Anagrams

• ovri, rivo, rovi, vori

Latin

Pronunciation

• virō: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.roː/,
• virō: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ro/,
• vīrō: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.roː/,
• vīrō: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ro/,

Noun

virō

1. dative/ablative singular of vir m

Noun

vīrō

1. dative/ablative singular of vīrus

References

• viro 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)

Paumarí

Noun

viro f

1. parrot

Portuguese

Verb

viro

1. first-person singular present indicative of virar; "I turn"

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾo/
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: vi‧ro

Verb

viro

1. first-person singular present indicative of virar

Teanu

Etymology

From Proto-Vanikoro *virə, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /firo/

Noun

viro

1. fan palm

References

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry viro.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry viro.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Votic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Finnish Viro, Estonian Viru.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈviroː/,
• Rhymes: -iroː
• Hyphenation: vi‧ro

Adjective

viro

1. (not inflected) Estonian

Noun

viro

1. Estonian (language)

Inflection

The following forms exist:

• the genitive singular and partitive singular, both viro (except in dialects without reduction where they are viroo)
• the translative singular virossi

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “viroo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn