aleo

See also: Aleo, áleo, and aleó

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Allee and Polish aleja, both borrowed from French allée. Compare English alley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈleo/

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: a‧le‧o

Noun

aleo (accusative singular aleon, plural aleoj, accusative plural aleojn)

1. path (of a garden, park, etc.)
2. allée, tree-lined street or avenue

   Synonym: bulvardo

See also

• avenuo
• strateto
• vojo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ālea

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō, -ōn-

Latin āleō

From ālea (“die; game of dice”) + -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ɫe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.le.o]

Noun

āleō m (genitive āleōnis); third declension

1. gambler, gamester
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 29:

     Quis hoc potest videre, quis potest pati,
     nisi impudicus et vorax et aleo

     Who can see this, who can stand it,
     save the shameless, the glutton, and gambler

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	āleō	āleōnēs
genitive	āleōnis	āleōnum
dative	āleōnī	āleōnibus
accusative	āleōnem	āleōnēs
ablative	āleōne	āleōnibus
vocative	āleō	āleōnēs

Related terms

• ālea
• āleātor

References

• “aleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aleo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “aleo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

aleo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alear