Po

See also: Appendix:Variations of "po"

Translingual

Symbol

Po

1. (chemistry) Symbol for polonium.

English

Etymology

From Italian Po, from Latin Padus.

Proper noun

Po

1. The longest river in Italy, 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
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: पो f (po)
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• 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)
• Venetian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• OP, Op., op, op.

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 (strong, genitive Pos, plural Pos)

1. buttocks

   Synonyms: Allerwertester, Hintern, Hinterteil, Popo, vier Buchstaben

Declension

Declension of Po [masculine, strong]

	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

Etymology 2

Proper noun

der Po m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Po or des Pos)

1. Po (a river in Italy)

Further reading

• “Po” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Po (Fluss)” in Duden online
• “Po (Hintern, Hinterteil)” in Duden online

Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Padus, perhaps borrowed in this form from some Gallo-Italic variety to judge by the loss of /-d-/. On the other hand, should one assume that said loss occurred (irregularly) in Tuscany, the sound-changes from that point onward would be fairly straightforward: /ˈpa.o/ > /ˈpaw/ > /ˈpɔ/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ/^*
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: Pò

Proper noun

Po m

1. Po (a river in Italy)

Related terms

• padano

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôː/

Proper noun

Pȏ m (Cyrillic spelling По̑)

1. the river Po

   Synonym: Pȃd

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 傅 (Pò͘).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpo/ [ˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: Po

Proper noun

Po (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien