Angelo

See also: angelo, anĝelo, and Ângelo

English

Etymology

From Italian Angelo, from Late Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”) cognate to the English Angel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dʒə.loʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.hə.loʊ/

Proper noun

Angelo

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], page 63, column 2:

     I haue deliuerd to Lord Angelo / (A man of ſtricture and firme abſtinence) / My abſolute power, and place here in Vienna,

   • 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter V”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, OCLC 799455878, page 74:

     Luigi — Angelo. They're lovely names; and so grand and foreign — not like Jones and Robinson and such.

Derived terms

• San Angelo

Translations

male given name

• Galician: Anxo (gl) m
• German: Angelo
• Greek: Άγγελος (el) m (Ángelos)

• Italian: Angelo (it) m
• Portuguese: Ângelo (pt)
• Spanish: Ángel (es)

Anagrams

• engaol, longæ

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German

Proper noun

Angelo

1. A male given name from Italian Angelo

Related terms

• Angela, Angelika, Angelina

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Angelus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.d͡ʒe.lo/
• Rhymes: -andʒelo

Proper noun

Angelo m

1. A male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Angel

Related terms

• Angela
• Michelangelo

Anagrams

• Galeno
• gelano
• legano

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Latin

Proper noun

Angelō

1. dative singular of Angelus
2. ablative singular of Angelus