avo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːvəʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈævəʉ/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːvəʊ

Borrowed from Portuguese avo.

avo (plural avos)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.

Clipping of avocado.

avo (plural avos)

1. (informal, Australia, South Africa) Clipping of avocado.
   • 2007, Ken Albertsen, Farmsteading in Thailand, page 68:

     Given the challenges of trying to propagate avocados, one might wonder why we don't simply get hold of seeds and/or nursery starts and go that route – especially since avos tend to grow somewhat 'true to seed.'

• VOA, OAV, AoV, AOV, OVA, ova

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habəl (“weave cloth”).

avo

1. to weave

From Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os.

• IPA^(key): [ˈavo]

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• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: a‧vo

avo (accusative singular avon, plural avoj, accusative plural avojn)

1. grandfather

   Mia avo estas la patro de mia patro. ― My grandfather is the father of my father.

2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) old man
   • 2009, “Fek al Esperanto! [Fuck Esperanto!]”, in Fek al Esperanto!‎^[1], performed by La Pafklik:

     Mi parolas pri merda lingvo
     Elpensita de stulta avo

     I'm talking about a shitty language
     Thought up by a stupid old man

• Avo Frosto

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑ̝ʋo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋo
• Hyphenation^(key): avo

avo

1. Abbreviation of avokysymys.

• “avo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from Esperanto avo (“grandfather, grandparent”), Italian avo, Spanish abuelo and French aïeul, from Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈavo/

avo (plural avi)

1. grandparent

Akin to Finnish avo.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑʋo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑʋo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋo
• Hyphenation: a‧vo

avo

1. (in compounds) openness

Declension of avo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	avo	avot
genitive	avon	avvoin, avoloin
partitive	avvoa	avoja, avoloja
illative	avvoo	avvoi, avoloihe
inessive	avos	avois, avolois
elative	avost	avoist, avoloist
allative	avolle	avoille, avoloille
adessive	avol	avoil, avoloil
ablative	avolt	avoilt, avoloilt
translative	avoks	avoiks, avoloiks
essive	avonna, avvoon	avoinna, avoloinna, avvoin, avoloin
exessive1)	avont	avoint, avoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 24

From Latin avus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os. Compare Portuguese avô (“grandfather”) and avó (“grandmother”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: à‧vo

avo m (plural avi, feminine ava)

1. ancestor, forefather

   Synonyms: antenato, ascendente

• avito
• bisavo
• trisavo

• ova

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Yami avo.

avo

1. ash

avō

1. dative/ablative singular of avus

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abaw; cognate with Javanese ambo.

avo

1. high
2. lofty, eminent

From the ending of [oit]avo.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Hyphenation: a‧vo

avo m (plural avos)

1. one of fractions/equal parts of a unit divided in more than 10 equal parts

   Doze avos de 240 são 20.

   A twelfth of 240 is 20.

   Três quinze avos = ³⁄₁₅.

   Three fifteenths = ³⁄₁₅

2. (numismatics) avo (one-hundredth of a pataca)

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)abu(s), from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Ivatan avo.

avo

1. ash