stolo

See also: Stolo

English

Noun

stolo (plural stolos)

1. (slang) A stolen car
   • 2017 January 10, John Pacenti, “NEW: Knives, drugs, social-media grudge lead to Boca teens’ arrest”, in The Palm Beach Post‎^[1]:

     Connor Kilpatrick, 17, posted the photo with the caption “stolo on the lolo,” according to a probable-cause affidavit made public Tuesday.

   • 2022 November 2, Antdawg2400, “Known locations to scout for stolen car?”, in Reddit‎^[2]:

     There was a stolo on my block someone ditched with all the windows rolled down for a fuckin month next to my house.

   • 2024 August 6, ab (@_rileysworld), Twitter‎^[3]:

     I got a donut on my car until tomorrow & I’m riding my car like a stolo 🤣

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.loː/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.lo/, [ˈst̪ɔːlo]

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stel-. See also Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē) and Armenian ստեղն (steġn, “twig, branch”).

Noun

stolō m (genitive stolōnis); third declension

1. a shoot, branch, or twig springing from the root or stock of a tree; a sucker, knee

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stolō	stolōnēs
Genitive	stolōnis	stolōnum
Dative	stolōnī	stolōnibus
Accusative	stolōnem	stolōnēs
Ablative	stolōne	stolōnibus
Vocative	stolō	stolōnēs

Derived terms

• stolōnifer (New Latin)

Descendants

• Catalan: estaló, estoló
• → English: stolon, stole (learned)
• → French: stolon (learned)
  • → Romanian: stolon
• Italian: stolone
• Occitan: estolon
• Portuguese: estolão
• Spanish: estolón

References

• “stolo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stolo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

stolō m

1. dative/ablative singular of stolus