allo

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.loʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: aloe

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^[1], 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

• aro-allo
• allocishet

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^[2], 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

• -alol, Lola, lalo, olla

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• all (Benasquese)

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

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Interjection

allo

1. post-1990 spelling of allô

Further reading

• “allo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Allos

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “allo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “allo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “allo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• al

Anagrams

• olla

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^[3], 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɬɔ/

Verb

allo

1. soft mutation of gallo

Mutation

Mutated forms of gallo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gallo	allo	ngallo	unchanged

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