po
See also Appendix:Variations of "po"
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Old English pawa (pāwa), from West Germanic, from Latin pavo (pāvo). Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau.
Noun
Etymology 2
From French pot.
Noun
po (plural pos)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
- 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8, page 67,
- ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
- 1989, Leonard Woolf, Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86,
- There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.
- 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8, page 67,
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *opo, from Proto-Indo-European *e-, *ē- (“then, at that time”). Compare German ob (“if, whether”), West Frisian oft (“whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), Middle Low German ef (“if, whether”).
Pronunciation
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Participle
po
Conjunction
po
Synonyms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
po m (??? please provide the plural!, ??? please provide the diminutive!)
Anagrams
Esperanto
Preposition
po
- A grammatical particle used with quantity words to indicate rate or a distributive quantity: each, apiece, at, @
- Mi kudrados ĉiutage po 10 horoj. — I will sew 10 hours a day.
- Oni povas nokti po 6 frankoj. — You can spend the night for 6 francs (a night).
- La kurso daŭras dum 10 tagoj po 30 minutoj. — The course lasts 10 days at 30 minutes (a day).
- La komitato estas rebalotota ĉiun trian jaron po triono. — A third of the committee is reelected every third year.
- La gastoj trinkis po (unu) glaseton da vino. — The guests each drank one glass of wine.
- Ili ricevis po 5 pomojn. — They received 5 apples apiece.
- Elektu al vi po 3 homojn el ĉiu tribo. — Choose for yourselves 3 people from each tribe.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Noun
po (plural po-oj, accusative singular po-on, accusative plural po-ojn)
- The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
See also
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/be, co/ce, ĉo/ĉa, do/de, e, fo/ef, go/ge, ĝo/ĝe, ho/ha, ĥo/ĥi, i, jo/je, ĵo/ĵi, ko/ka, lo/el, mo/om, no/en, o, po/pa, ro/ar, so/es, ŝo/eŝ, to/ta, u, ŭo/eŭ, vo/vi, zo/ze (Category: eo:Latin letter names)
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂po. Cognates include по (po), Old Prussian pa-, po-, Myceanean Greek 𐀀𐀢 (a-pu), Sanskrit अप (ápa, “away, off”), Latin ab (“from”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱 (apa, “away”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of”), Old English æf (“of”).
Preposition
po
- under (+ instrumental)
- after (+ genitive)
Lojban
Cmavo
po
- belonging to or being uniquely associated with
Usage notes
- Contrary to pe, the association has to be unique to the object.
Related terms
Mandarin
Romanization
po
- Nonstandard spelling of pō.
- Nonstandard spelling of pó.
- Nonstandard spelling of pǒ.
- Nonstandard spelling of pò.
Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po
Pronunciation
Preposition
po
- with nouns in locative case:
- with nouns in accusative case:
- with adjectives in dative case:
- according to, in the way of
- in the language of
Usage notes
Dative case adjectives ending in -ski take the archaic suffix -sku instead of -skiemu when used with this preposition.
Conjunction
po
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From pol, from Proto-Slavic *polъ. See po-.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pôː/
Adverb
pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)
- half
- sat i po — hour and a half
- četiri i po — four thirty
- čov(j)ek i po — an excellent man
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pô/
Preposition
pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)
- (with accusative) for
- otići po ml(ij)eko — to go and get the milk
- po c(ij)eli dan — all day long
- po šesti put — for the sixth time
- biti štetan po nekoga/nešto — to be harmful for sb/sth
- dobro/loše po njega — good/bad for him
- (with locative) over, through, across, in, on
- udariti po glavi — to hit on the head
- sn(ij)eg je pao po cesti — snow fell on the road
- voda se prolila po podu — water spilled over the floor
- šetati po šumi — to walk in the woods
- (with locative) by, with (using an intermediary)
- poslao sam mu paket po zajedničkom prijatelju — I've sent him a package with a common friend
- (with locative) by, according to
- sve ide po planu — everything is going according to the plan
- po glavi stanovnika — per capita
- živ(j)eti po principima — to live according to principles
- po mom(e) mišljenju — in my opinion
- po mom računu — by my reckoning
- po meni — in my opinion; as far as I'm concerned
- po zraku/vodi — by air/water
- po zapov(ij)ed — by order
- svirati po sluhu — to play by the ear
- suditi po vanjštini — to judge by appearance
- (with locative) after
- po svršetku sukoba — after (the end of) the conflict
- (with locative) during
- po kiši/suncu — in the rain/sun
- po danu — during the day
- (with locative) in miscellaneous senses in various phrasal constructs
- razum(ij)e se (samo) po sebi — it goes without saying
- neka bude po tvome — let it be your way
- Amerka je prva država po bogatstvu u sv(ij)etu — America is the richest country in the world
- jednak po veličini — equal in size
- sve je po starom — everything is/goes in the accustomed/usual manner
- po običaju — as usual, according to custom
- po vr(ij)ednosti — in value
- po svoj prilici — in all likelihood
- po rodu — by birth
- po naravi/prirodi — in nature
- po toj c(ij)eni — at this price
- po paragrafu 13 — under section 13
- po što po to — by all means
- po mogućnosti — if possible
- po redu — in order, one after another
- po mom ukusu — (according) to my taste
- po kvaliteti — by quality
- po tome — according to this/that, accordingly, consequently, then
- po zakonu — according to the law, by the law
- po duljini — lengthwise
Etymology 3
Particle
po (Cyrillic spelling по)
- (with accusative or nominative) denoting distribution and succession
- popili smo svi po čašicu rakije — we all drank a glass of rakija
- korak po korak — step by step
- jedan po jedan — one by one
- malo po malo — little by little
- svi smo dobili po jabuku — each of us received an apple
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *po.
Pronunciation
Preposition
po
- (with locative) around, about
- (with locative) along, through (the length of)
- according to
- (with accusative) in the manner of
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Spanish
Etymology
From pues
Interjection
po
- (colloquial, Chile) emphatical
- ¡Si po!
- Yes, of course!
- ¡Ya, po!
- Come on!
- ¡Si po!
Synonyms
Usage notes
Always used at the end of a the sentence.
Tagalog
Interjection
po
- Added within a sentence to show respect to the recipient of the message.
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- Tuloy po kayo. - 'Come on in, Sir/ Madam.'
- Pupunta po ako sa simbahan, Inay. - 'I am going to church, Mother.'
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