-avo

See also: avo, AVO, avó, avô, and avo-

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: -à‧vo

Suffix

-avo (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the first-person singular imperfect of regular -are verbs

Anagrams

• ova

Karelian

Etymology

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

-avo (front vowel harmony variant -ävö)

1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs in -ata.

Portuguese

Suffix

-avo m (plural -avos)

1. forms fractionals

   ‎doze (“twelve”) + ‎-avo → ‎dozeavo (“one twelfth”)

Derived terms

Portuguese terms suffixed with -avo

centavo

Spanish

Suffix

-avo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ava, masculine plural -avos, feminine plural -avas)
-avo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -avos)

1. added to a cardinal number to signify one portion of a whole divided into that number of pieces; forms both nouns and adjectives

   ‎doce (“twelve”) + ‎-avo → ‎doceavo (“one twelfth (e.g. of a cake)”)

Usage notes

• 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

• centavo
• cuarentavo
• noventavo
• ochentavo
• onceavo
• quintavo
• sesentavo
• setentavo
• treintavo
• veinteavo

Further reading

• “-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