Halo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "halo"

English

Etymology

From the halo in the team logo.

Noun

Halo (countable and uncountable, plural Halos)

1. (informal, baseball) A member of the Angels Major League Baseball team.
2. (finance) Alternative letter-case form of HALO.
   • 2026 March 1, Graeme Wearden, “AI-resistant ‘halo’ stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 March 2026:

     While US mega-cap tech companies have had a rough start to 2026, the Halo trade helped to push UK and EU stock markets to record levels by the end of February. […] Goldman defined Halo businesses as ones which pair substantial physical capital (where barriers to replication include cost, regulation, time to build or engineering complexity) with long-lived economic relevance.

Anagrams

• hola

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin halo, from accusative of Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhaːlo]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Ha‧lo

Noun

Halo m (strong, genitive Halos, plural Halos or Halonen)

1. halo (circular band of coloured light, visible around the Sun or Moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere)

Further reading

• “Halo” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Halo” in Duden online

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦalɔ/, [ˈɦalɔ]
• Rhymes: -alɔ
• Hyphenation: Ha‧lo

Proper noun

Halo m pers (female equivalent Halová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Halo
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Halo	Halovia	Halovci
genitive	Hala	Halov	Halovcov
dative	Halovi	Halom	Halovcom
accusative	Hala	Halov	Halovcov
locative	Halovi	Haloch	Halovcoch
instrumental	Halom	Halami	Halovcami

Further reading

• “Halo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026