clo

See also: CLO, Clo, cló, clò, and cło

Translingual

Etymology

Initialism of English Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca.

Symbol

clo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lowland Oaxaca Chontal.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lowland Oaxaca Chontal terms

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech clo, from Middle High German zol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡slo]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: clo

Noun

clo n

1. duty, tariff, customs duty (on export and import)

Declension

Declension of clo (hard neuter reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	clo	cla
genitive	cla	cel
dative	clu	clům
accusative	clo	cla
vocative	clo	cla
locative	cle, clu	clech
instrumental	clem	cly

Derived terms

• bezcelní
• celnice f
• celník m
• clít
• proclít

See also

• poplatek m
• daň f
• mýtné n

Further reading

• “clo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “clo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “clo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Old Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German zol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈt͡sɫo/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈt͡slo/

Noun

clo n

1. customs, toll (fee for passing through the border of a certain territory)
2. customs, toll (fee for goods brought somewhere that were carried through somewhere)
3. toll (fee for permission to do some activity sometimes taken from the proceeds of some activity)
4. customs right (privilege to collect customs)
5. customs building, toll building (place for collecting customs)
6. (biblical) wage, salary (reward for someone hired for work)

Descendants

• Czech: clo
• → Old Polish: cło
  • Polish: cło
  • Silesian: cło

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “clo”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Vietnamese

Chemical element (edit)
Cl Atomic number 17 clo
Classification data Period 3 Group 17 Block p-block Class halogen
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Etymology

From French chlore, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧], [kəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧], [kəː˦˩ lɔ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧], [kəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: clo, cờ lo

Noun

clo

1. chlorine

Welsh

1. prop penrhydd, 2. bachwr, 3. prop pentynn, 4. clo/ail reng, 5. clo/ail reng, 6. blaenasgellwr ochr dywyll, 7. blaenasgellwr ochr agored, 8. wythwr, 9. mewnwr, 10. maswr, 11. asgellwr chwith, 12. canolwr mewnol, 13. canolwr allanol, 14. asgellwr de, 15. cefnwr

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *klọw, from Proto-Celtic *klāwos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (whence Latin clāvis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kloː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

clo m (plural cloeon or cloeau)

1. lock, bolt
2. impediment, difficulty
3. (prosody) consonance or correspondence of consonants in cynghanedd; often figurative
4. lock, brake; mechanism that explodes charge in gun
5. canal lock
6. cluster, bunch
7. (rugby) lock

   Synonym: ail reng

8. conclusion

Derived terms

• ar glo (“locked”)
• clo adlam (“spring lock”)
• clo araith (“peroration”)
• clo bach (“appliance to keep the wheel of a vehicle from turning on a steep slope”, literally “little lock”)
• clo clap, clo clec, clo clwt, clo cramp, clo dibyn, clo llyffant, clo march (“padlock”)
• clo clicied (“clicket-lock, latch-lock”)
• clo cont (“chastity belt, girdle”)
• clo cyngan (“correspondence of two consonants or groups of consonants in cynghanedd; conclusion, close”)
• clo cywydd (“envoy, concluding couplet”)
• clo dryll (“lock of a gun”)
• clo egwyd (“padlock, fetterlock”)
• clo rheswm (“conclusion”)
• clo Sbaen (“Spanish padlock, chastity belt, girdle”)
• clo tân (“firelock”)
• clo trafod (“closure”)
• clofan (“enclave”)
• clo(’r) chwedl
• cyfnod clo (“lockdown”)
• diweddglo, cynghlo (“conclusion”)
• tan glo (“locked, locked up, under lock and key”)
• tan glo ac allwydd (“under lock and key”)
• ynghlo, yng nghlo (“locked, locked up”)

Related terms

• cloi (“to lock, shut or bind fast, clinch; to conclude”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of clo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
clo	glo	nghlo	chlo

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

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “clo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies