Wiktionary

aro

See also: -aro, ARO, Aro, aro', arò, aró, ařo, aṛó, and äro

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Clipping of aromantic. Coined on the Internet in the 2010s.

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

aro (comparative more aro, superlative most aro)

  1. (slang, neologism) Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction).
    • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:
      For ace and aro people, the possibilities for diverse relationships are endless, despite how pop culture often brands our identity as restrictive and confined.
    • 2017, Melissa Reph, "You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'", The Muhlenberg Weekly (Muhlenberg College), 26 October 2017, page 3:
      For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.
    • 2018, Alexis Stark, "A-spectrum student experiences on MSU's campus", The State News (Michigan State University), 29 November 2018, page 5:
      This provides a home base for people looking to learn more about ace and aro identities.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro.

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

aro (plural aros)

  1. (slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic.
    • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:
      While aces and aros can often be a misunderstood demographic in the queer community and outside of it, information about our identities is making its way into more conversations.
    • 2018, Isabel Nathan, "Asexuals, you are not alone", Washington Blade, 19 October 2018, page 20:
      Now most of my social circle is made up of other aces and aros.
    • 2019, Chelaine Kirsh, "Let's talk about aces, baby", The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan), 24 October 2019, page 11:
      Building off from this calling card, aros have a more obscure variation of this where they don white rings.

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

AfarEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʌˈɾo/
  • Hyphenation: a‧ro

NounEdit

aró f 

  1. bite (act of biting)

ReferencesEdit

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

BasqueEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

aro inan

  1. time, season
  2. age, era
    Erdi Aroa ― Middles Ages
  3. (Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin) weather
DeclensionEdit
Declension of aro (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive aro aroa aroak
ergative arok aroak aroek
dative arori aroari aroei
genitive aroren aroaren aroen
comitative arorekin aroarekin aroekin
causative arorengatik aroarengatik aroengatik
benefactive arorentzat aroarentzat aroentzat
instrumental aroz aroaz aroez
inessive arotan aroan aroetan
locative arotako aroko aroetako
allative arotara arora aroetara
terminative arotaraino aroraino aroetaraino
directive arotarantz arorantz aroetarantz
destinative arotarako arorako aroetarako
ablative arotatik arotik aroetatik
partitive arorik — —
prolative arotzat — —

Etymology 2Edit

From Spanish aro (“ring”).[1]

NounEdit

aro inan

  1. wreath, garland
  2. ring, circle
DeclensionEdit
Declension of aro (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive aro aroa aroak
ergative arok aroak aroek
dative arori aroari aroei
genitive aroren aroaren aroen
comitative arorekin aroarekin aroekin
causative arorengatik aroarengatik aroengatik
benefactive arorentzat aroarentzat aroentzat
instrumental aroz aroaz aroez
inessive arotan aroan aroetan
locative arotako aroko aroetako
allative arotara arora aroetara
terminative arotaraino aroraino aroetaraino
directive arotarantz arorantz aroetarantz
destinative arotarako arorako aroetarako
ablative arotatik arotik aroetatik
partitive arorik — —
prolative arotzat — —

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “aro” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further readingEdit

  • "aro" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “aro” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Back-formation from -aro (“collection”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

aro (accusative singular aron, plural aroj, accusative plural arojn)

  1. bunch
    aro da kliŝaĵoj pri kaj Eŭropo kaj la nova traktato ― a bunch of clichés about both Europe and the new treaty

Related termsEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *aro (compare Estonian aru), probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arɜ (compare Erzya аразь (arazʹ, “lack”), Khanty [script needed] (urι, urə), Mansi [script needed] (orāj, orəj)).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑro/, [ˈɑro̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑro
  • Syllabification(key): a‧ro

NounEdit

aro

  1. steppe
  2. (dialectal) humid or swampy meadow or plain

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of aro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative aro arot
genitive aron arojen
partitive aroa aroja
illative aroon aroihin
singular plural
nominative aro arot
accusative nom. aro arot
gen. aron
genitive aron arojen
partitive aroa aroja
inessive arossa aroissa
elative arosta aroista
illative aroon aroihin
adessive arolla aroilla
ablative arolta aroilta
allative arolle aroille
essive arona aroina
translative aroksi aroiksi
instructive — aroin
abessive arotta aroitta
comitative — aroineen
Possessive forms of aro (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person aroni aromme
2nd person arosi aronne
3rd person aronsa

CompoundsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “aro”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects]‎[2] (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022.

AnagramsEdit

GaloEdit

Alternative formsEdit

ayo

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tani *rjo, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej. Cognate with Tibetan ལྕེ (lce), Garo sre and Chinese 舌 (shé).

NounEdit

aro

  1. tongue

GaroEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably borrowed from Bengali আর (ar).

ConjunctionEdit

aro

  1. and, in addition to

ReferencesEdit

  • Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎[3], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 337

HiligaynonEdit

NounEdit

arô

  1. leprosy

ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

aro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arare

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *araō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h₂erh₃-. The root-final laryngeal was lost in the Proto-Indo-European verb, but was restored in Proto-Italic.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Lithuanian arti, and Old English erian (archaic English ear).

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

arō (present infinitive arāre, perfect active arāvī, supine arātum); first conjugation

  1. I plough, till; I cultivate land, farm; I acquire by tillage
  2. (of age) I draw furrows over the body, wrinkle

ConjugationEdit

   Conjugation of arō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present arō arās arat arāmus arātis arant
imperfect arābam arābās arābat arābāmus arābātis arābant
future arābō arābis arābit arābimus arābitis arābunt
perfect arāvī arāvistī arāvit arāvimus arāvistis arāvērunt,
arāvēre
pluperfect arāveram arāverās arāverat arāverāmus arāverātis arāverant
future perfect arāverō arāveris arāverit arāverimus arāveritis arāverint
passive present aror arāris,
arāre 		arātur arāmur arāminī arantur
imperfect arābar arābāris,
arābāre 		arābātur arābāmur arābāminī arābantur
future arābor arāberis,
arābere 		arābitur arābimur arābiminī arābuntur
perfect arātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect arātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect arātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present arem arēs aret arēmus arētis arent
imperfect arārem arārēs arāret arārēmus arārētis arārent
perfect arāverim arāverīs arāverit arāverīmus arāverītis arāverint
pluperfect arāvissem arāvissēs arāvisset arāvissēmus arāvissētis arāvissent
passive present arer arēris,
arēre 		arētur arēmur arēminī arentur
imperfect arārer arārēris,
arārēre 		arārētur arārēmur arārēminī arārentur
perfect arātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect arātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — arā — — arāte —
future — arātō arātō — arātōte arantō
passive present — arāre — — arāminī —
future — arātor arātor — — arantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives arāre arāvisse arātūrum esse arārī arātum esse arātum īrī
participles arāns — arātūrus — arātus arandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
arandī arandō arandum arandō arātum arātū

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Aromanian: ar, arari
  • Asturian: arar
  • Franco-Provençal: arar
  • Friulian: arâ
  • Italian: arare
  • Occitan: arar
  • Old Catalan: arar
  • Old French: arer
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arar
  • Romanian: ara, arare
  • Sardinian: arai, arare
  • Sicilian: arari
  • Spanish: arar
  • Venetian: arar

ReferencesEdit

  • “aro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • aro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

MalagasyEdit

NounEdit

aro

  1. defense; protection

AdjectiveEdit

aro

  1. (dialectal, Betsimisaraka) Synonym of roa

MansakaEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu.

NounEdit

aro

  1. pestle
  2. pole for pounding rice

Etymology 2Edit

Unknown.

NounEdit

arò

  1. fog

MaoriEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qadəp (“front, facing part”).

NounEdit

aro

  1. front (facing side)
    Kua maringi i a koe ki runga i to aro.
    You've spilt it down your front.
  2. front (weather)
    Ko te paenga e tūtaki ai ētahi hau whakapipi e rua, ka kīia he aro.
    The boundary where two air masses meet is called a front.

VerbEdit

aro (passive arohia or arongia or arotia)

  1. (transitive) to turn toward something or someone
    Me aro te kaikōrero ki te hunga turi, kia kite ai rātou i tōna waha e kōrero na.
    The speaker should face toward the deaf people so that they can see her mouth when she is talking.

ReferencesEdit

  • “aro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

NauruanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Pre-Nauruan *rua-ua, from Proto-Micronesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

NumeralEdit

aro

  1. two

Northern KurdishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

aro m (Arabic spelling ئارۆ‎)

  1. Alternative form of arû (“cucumber”)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of aro
Definite masculine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative aro aro
Construct aroyê aroyên
Oblique aroyî aroyan
Demonstrative oblique wî aroyî wan aroyan
Vocative aroyo aroyino
Indefinite masculine gender
Case Singular Plural
Nominative aroyek aroyin
Construct aroyekî aroyine
Oblique aroyekî aroyinan

ReferencesEdit

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “aro”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 12

Old High GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Same as arn.

NounEdit

aro m

  1. eagle

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -aɾu
  • Hyphenation: a‧ro

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese aro of uncertain origin. Cognate with Spanish aro.

NounEdit

aro m (plural aros)

  1. any large circular band of material
    1. hoop (circular band of metal used to bind a barrel)
    2. rim (outer edge of a wheel)
      aro de propulsão ― wheelchair's pushrim
    3. the frame of eyeglasses
      Synonym: armação
    4. juggling ring
      Synonym: argola
  2. the region surrounding a city
    Synonym: periferia

Etymology 2Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

aro m (plural aros)

  1. arum (any plant in the genus Arum)

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

aro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arar

RomaniEdit

NounEdit

aro m

  1. Alternative form of arro (“flour”)

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾo/ [ˈa.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -aɾo
  • Syllabification: a‧ro

Etymology 1Edit

Unknown origin.

NounEdit

aro m (plural aros)

  1. hoop
  2. large ring
  3. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay) earring
    Synonyms: arete, pendiente
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin arum.

NounEdit

aro m (plural aros)

  1. arum lily
Alternative formsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

aro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arar

Further readingEdit

YamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadu, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadu. Cognate with Puyuma sadru and Limos Kalinga adu.

AdjectiveEdit

aro

  1. many; a lot
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