-avo
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-avo (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form the first-person singular imperfect of regular -are verbs
Anagrams
[edit]Karelian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *-ado, from Proto-Finnic *-o (whence also Finnish -o) plus the inflectional stem of verbs ending in *-at'ak. Cognates include Finnish -uu.
Suffix
[edit]-avo (front vowel harmony variant -ävö)
- Forms abstract nouns from verbs in -ata.
Portuguese
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-avo m (plural -avos)
- forms fractionals
Derived terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-avo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ava, masculine plural -avos, feminine plural -avas)
-avo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -avos)
- added to a cardinal number to signify one portion of a whole divided into that number of pieces; forms both nouns and adjectives
Usage notes
[edit]- Only used for numbers greater than 10. Less common for numbers 1000 and above (use the vigésimo ordinal form which is also signifies portions). If the cardinal number ends in -a, do not add another one (cuarentavo instead of !cuarentaavo). The conversion of cien is irregular (centavo).
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “-avo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/avo
- Rhymes:Italian/avo/2 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian suffix forms
- Karelian terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Karelian lemmas
- Karelian suffixes
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish adjective-forming suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes