Po

See also: PO, po, Pô, and Appendix:Variations of "po"

Translingual

Symbol

Po

1. (chemistry) Symbol for polonium.

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English

Etymology

From Italian Po, from Latin Padus.

Proper noun

Po

1. Italy's longest river, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

Translations

longest river in Italy

• Armenian: Պո (Po)
• Bulgarian: По (Po)
• Catalan: Po (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波河 (zh) (Bōhé)

• Czech: Pád (cs) m
• Esperanto: Pado
• Finnish: Po-joki, Po (fi)
• French: Pô (fr) m
• Greek: Πάδος m (Pádos)

  Ancient: Πάδος m (Pádos), Ἠριδανός m (Ēridanós)

• Hungarian: Pó (hu)
• Italian: Po (it) m

• Japanese: ポー川 (Pō-gawa)
• Latin: Padus
• Marathi: पो f (po)
• Polish: Pad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Pó m
• Romanian: Pad
• Russian: По (ru) (Po)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: По f

  Roman: Po (sh) f

• Slovak: Pád m
• Turkish: Po (tr)

Anagrams

• OP, Op., op, op.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Short for Popo, a 17th-century reduplication of the first syllable of Podex, from Latin podex.

Noun

Po m (genitive Pos, plural Pos)

1. buttocks

Declension

Declension of Po

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Po	die	Pos
genitive	eines	des	Pos	der	Pos
dative	einem	dem	Po	den	Pos
accusative	einen	den	Po	die	Pos

Synonyms

• Allerwertester
• Hintern
• Hinterteil
• Popo
• vier Buchstaben

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Po m (genitive Pos)

1. Po (a river in Italy)

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Italian

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin Padus, through a form *Paus > *Pau > Po.

Proper noun

Po m

1. The river Po.

Related terms

• padano

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Pȏ m (Cyrillic spelling По̑)

1. the river Po

Synonyms

• Pȃd

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 傅 (Pò͘).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Proper noun

Po

1. A surname of Chinese origin.