milo

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

English

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Etymology

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Probably related to Portuguese milho (millet). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.

Noun

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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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Anagrams

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Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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milo

  1. Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From mil +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈmilo]
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Hyphenation: mil‧o

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon).

Noun

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milo n

  1. apple

Korak

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Noun

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milo

  1. wild chicken

Coordinate terms

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  • titer (domesticated chicken)

Further reading

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  • Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin mālus.

Noun

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milo m

  1. apple
  2. apple tree

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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mȉlo (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)

  1. dearly, kindly, cordially

Adjective

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milo

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mio

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

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Noun

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mílo n

  1. soap
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
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
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Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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mílo

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

Further reading

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

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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milo

  1. plural of mlo