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See also: allos, allo-, allô, allò, álló, ällö, and 'allo

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

allo

  1. Alternative spelling of 'allo (“hello”).

Etymology 2

Clipping of allosexual or alloromantic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

allo (comparative more allo, superlative most allo)

  1. (informal) Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.
    • 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex‎, page 83:
      Asking a person to work on themself to have more sex seems natural and intuitive, but imagine asking the allo partner to be celibate.
    • 2021, Izzy, "Live While We're Young: Aromantic Frienships, Youth and Futures", CAMP Magazine (University of Melbourne), Volume 4 (2021), page 20:
      However, being aro adds another layer of urgency. As we get older, a lot of our monogamous allo friends will find their life partner, get married, and have kids.
    • 2021, anonymous, quoted in "Questions Of The Month", AVENues Newsletters, July-September 2021, pages 14-15:
      I would say that it'd help so much if the ace characters would be explicitly acknowledged by the creators, but this doesn't always fix things. In the case of Jughead Jones, his asexuality and aromanticism were explicitly stated, but that didn't stop people from completely disregarding it, to the point where most fanart and fanfiction of him makes him allo.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:allo.
Derived terms

Noun

allo (plural allos)

  1. (informal) One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.
    • 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex‎, page 108:
      Allos might feel infatuated with a new acquaintance or be more attached to their best friend than to any romantic partner, yet they can deny the possibility of romantic feeling because of the lack of sexual attraction. Allos can wave their hand and say, "There are people I want to sleep with, and I don't want to sleep with you, so it's only platonic."
    • 2021, "Will", quoted in "Member Highlight: Multi-Member Question And Answer", AVENues Newsletter, January-March 2021, page 19:
      Then maybe asexuals wouldn't face negative responses ("You're a late bloomer" or You haven't met the right person" etc.) when they come out to allos.
    • 2021, Adam Key, "The Silent A: A Critical Soundtrack of Asexuality", Journal of Autoethnography, Volume 2, Issue 4, Fall 2021:
      Part of why I’m writing this essay is to tell allos we exist, to make them aware of our struggle and our pain.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:allo.

Anagrams

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Aragonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaʎo/
  • Syllabification: a‧llo
  • Rhymes: -aʎo

Noun

allo m (plural allos)

  1. garlic

References

  • “ajo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Coastal Konjo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw.

Noun

allo

  1. day
  2. sun

French

Pronunciation

Interjection

allo

  1. post-1990 spelling of allô

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

    From Old Galician-Portuguese alho, from Latin allium. Cognate with Portuguese alho and Spanish ajo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈaɟo/ [ˈa̠.ɟʊ]
    • Rhymes: -aɟo
    • Hyphenation: a‧llo

    Noun

    allo m (plural allos)

    1. garlic (Allium sativum)
      • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime, volume IV (overall work in Spanish), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 191-193, page 191:
        Non fagas Copras mordentes, / que no teu frío gaspallo, / ben conocemos ó Allo, / sin que nos mostres os dentes: […]
        Don't you compose mordant verses / 'cause in your cold gazpacho / we readily meet the garlic / even while you don't show the cloves (= even while you don't show your teeth)

    Derived terms

    • allada
    • allo porro
    • listo como un allo

    References

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    Inabaknon

    Etymology

    From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *hallu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu.

    Noun

    allo

    1. pestle

    Isnag

    Etymology

    From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu.

    Noun

    allo

    1. pestle

    Italian

    Etymology

    a (preposition) +‎ lo (article)

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈal.lo/
    • Rhymes: -allo
    • Hyphenation: àl‧lo

    Contraction

    allo

    1. contraction of a +‎ lo, literally “to the, at the”

    See also

    Anagrams

    Makasar

    Etymology

    From Proto-South Sulawesi *ɨlzo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ʼalːo/, [ˈal.lɔ]

    Noun

    allo (Lontara spelling ᨕᨒᨚ)

    1. day
      Anne alloa ― Today; present day
    2. sun (in some expressions)
      Synonyms: dalle, mata allo
      Taʼbuaʼmi alloa iraya ― The sun has risen in the east
      Saʼraʼmo alloa ― The sun has set

    Affixations

    • allo-allo
    • allo-alloang
    • allòi
    • anngallo
    • kaalloang
    • panngalloang
    • piranngaloang

    Compounds

    • allo karaeng
    • allo lompo
    • anne alloa
    • kanaiʼ-naikanna alloa
    • mata allo
    • tanngallo

    Further reading

    • A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI

    Tagabawa

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Philippine *qaljaw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw.

    Noun

    álló

    1. day
    2. sun
    3. time

    Toraja-Sa'dan

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *ɨlzo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw.

    Noun

    allo

    1. day
    2. sun

    Welsh

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    allo

    1. soft mutation of gallo

    Mutation

    More information radical, soft ...

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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