revo
See also: révo
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Clipping of revolutie (“revolution”).
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revo f (uncountable)
- (Suriname, politics, chiefly colloquial) The 1980 Surinamese coup d'état
- (Suriname, politics, chiefly colloquial, by extension) The self-proclaimed revolutionary military dictatorship that ruled Suriname following the 1980 coup until 1991
- 2016 March 3, Stuart Rahan, “A Revo skefti [The revolution went off]”, in De Ware Tijd[1], archived from the original on 1 February 2022:
- Met regelmaat werden andersdenkenden of tegenstanders van de 'Revo' van hun bed gelicht of aangegeven bij de omhoog gevallen militaire autoriteiten.
- Dissidents or opponents of the military dictatorship were regularly dragged from their beds or reported to the upstart military authorities.
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revo (accusative singular revon, plural revoj, accusative plural revojn)
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- sonĝo (“dream”)
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revo
Ido edit
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From revar (“to daydream”) + -o (noun).
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revo (plural revi)
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rèvo f
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revo
- (pre-1940) plural past indicative of riva