allo

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

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

allo

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of allosexual or alloromantic.

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

• 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, 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

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Noun

allo

1. garlic

Coastal Konjo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləjaw.

Noun

allo

1. day
2. sun

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaʎʊ]

Noun

allo m (plural allos)

1. garlic (Allium sativum)
   • 1385, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 247:

     Outrosí, os rapases do [... escud]eiros e ofiçiaes rouban e furtan quanto achan nas ortas e nas chousas e leuan os allos e uerças e ortariça sen diñeiros

     Also, the servants [...] squires and officials rob and steal everything they find in gardens and enclosed fields, and they take away the garlics and the greens and the vegetables without paying for them

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. IV), 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

• “alho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “allos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “allo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “allo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “allo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Isnag

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahelu.

Noun

allo

1. pestle

Italian

Etymology

a (preposition) +‎ lo (article)

Pronunciation

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

Contraction

allo

1. Contraction of a lo (“to the, at the”).

See also

• al

Anagrams

• olla

Makasar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalːɔ]

Noun

allo (Lontara spelling ᨕᨒᨚ)

1. day
2. sun

Derived terms

• alloi

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

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gallo	allo	ngallo	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.