milo

See also: Milo, Mîlo, mīlo, miło, and mīļo

English

Noun

milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)

1. (US) sorghum
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:

     When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight […]

Anagrams

• limo, moil

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈl̪oʔ/

Noun

milo

1. Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

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Esperanto

Etymology

From mil +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈmilo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: mil‧o

Noun

milo (accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)

1. thousand, a group of one thousand of something
   • 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.

     El ĉiu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ĵetadis en la teron, apenaŭ unu ricevis radikojn.

     Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.

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Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon)

Noun

milo n

1. Italiot dialect form of μήλο (mílo)

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Korak

Noun

milo

1. wild chicken

Coordinate terms

• titer (“domesticated chicken”)

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)

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Neapolitan

Noun

milo m

1. apple
2. apple tree

Synonyms

• (apple tree) - pede 'e mele

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîlo/
• Hyphenation: mi‧lo

Adverb

mȉlo (Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)

1. dearly, kindly, cordially

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Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mìːlɔ/

Noun

mílo n

1. soap

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	mílo
gen. sing.	míla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mílo	míli	míla
genitive (rodȋlnik)	míla	míl	míl
dative (dajȃlnik)	mílu	míloma	mílom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mílo	míli	míla
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	mílu	mílih	mílih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	mílom	míloma	míli

Derived terms

• míliti

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mìːlɔ/

Adverb

mílo

1. movingly, touchingly
2. mildly, gently
3. leniently

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Swahili

Noun

milo

1. plural of mlo