almo
Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
almó f
References edit
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 51
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin almus (“nourishing; kind”), from Proto-Italic *almos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elmos, derived from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almi, feminine plural alme)
- (literary) nourishing; life-giving
- Synonym: (literary) altore
- (by extension, literary) great, noble, magnificent
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- almo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Adjective edit
almō
References edit
- “almo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “almo”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “almo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “almo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almos, feminine plural almas)
Further reading edit
- “almo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014