paro
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paro (Kana spelling パロ)
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paro
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paro
- Romanization of ᬧᬭᭀ
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paro
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Borrowed from German Paar, ultimately from Latin pār (“equal, like, suitable”). Cognate with English peer.
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paro (accusative singular paron, plural paroj, accusative plural parojn)
- pair (two similar or identical things)
- couple (two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship)
- Hyponyms: geedzoj (“(mixed-sex) married couple”), gefianĉoj (“engaged couple”)
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- -aro (“group, collection”)
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- pare (“pairwise, in a pair”)
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Popularised by rapper Kery James in 2009.
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paro (invariable)
- (slang) neurotic, crazy
- 2013, “Dernière danse”, in Mini World, performed by Indila:
- Sans lui je suis un peu paro / Je déambule seule dans le métro
- Without him I go a bit crazy / I wander on my own in the metro
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paro
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paro (plural pari)
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paro
- Romanization of ꦥꦫꦺꦴ
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.roː/, [ˈpäroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.ro/, [ˈpäːro]
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From Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-o (“providing”), from *perh₃- (“to grant”). Cognate with pariō (“to produce”), properus (“ready”), Old Irish ernaid (“to grant, bestow”), Sanskrit पृणाति (pṛṇā́ti, “to grant, bestow”), Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “to give, furnish”).[1]
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parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum); first conjugation
- to arrange, order, contrive, design
- to provide, furnish, prepare
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4:
- munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare
- to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of grain, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour
- munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare
- to resolve, purpose, decide
- to get, acquire, obtain, procure, make
- (Medieval Latin) to adorn, ornament
- (Medieval Latin) to learn by heart
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1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
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- → Albanian: proj
- Italian: parare
- Old French: parer
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: parar
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: parar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: parar
- Spanish: parar
- → Welsh: paratoi
Etymology 2 edit
From pār (“equal”).
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parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum); first conjugation
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- “paro1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- paro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- paro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to prepare to do a thing: parare with Inf.
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
- to take measures for..: parare aliquid
- to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
- to make preparations for a marriage: nuptias parare
- to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
- to make preparations for war: bellum parare
- (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
- (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
- (ambiguous) to be ready to endure anything: omnia perpeti paratum esse
- (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
- (ambiguous) to be a match for the enemy: parem (opp. imparem) esse hosti
- (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
- to prepare to do a thing: parare with Inf.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “paro”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 446-7
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paro m
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paro
- Alternative spelling of parwa
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paro
- masculine nominative singular of para (“other”)
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paro
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- Rhymes: -aɾu
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paro m (plural paros)
- stagnation, freeze up
- unemployment
- strike (work stoppage)
- Synonym: huelga
- cardiac arrest, ellipsis of paro cardiaco
- (Mexico) pretext
- (Mexico) a favour, help, cover-up, (preceded by hacerle un, hacerme un, to indicate "to do someone a favour", "to help someone", "to protect someone by lying")
- Hazme un paro, no le digas que estoy aquí
- Protect me, do not tell him/her that I am here
- Hazle un paro a Juan, tiene que meter todas esas cajas
- Help Juan, he must store all those boxes
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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paro
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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- “paro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014