See also: Apolo and ápoló

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo
 
Parnassius apollo

Noun

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apolo m (plural apolos)

  1. Apollo (a very handsome young man)
  2. Apollo (Parnassius apollo, a European butterfly)

Yoruba

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Ojú èèyàn tí àpólò ń ṣe

Etymology

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From English Apollo 11, as conjunctivitis became more prevalent in Nigeria with the return of Apollo 11 the infection was believed to have been heralded by the moon visitors.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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àpólò

  1. conjunctivitis [from 1969]

References

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  1. ^ Yusuff, Ayo (2010) Yoruba Language Engineering: A Lexical Morphology Perspective, →ISBN