pareo

See also: pareó, paréo, and páreo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tahitian pāreu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː(ɹ)i.əʊ/

Noun

pareo (plural pareos)

1. A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 51, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     “ […] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough. […] ”

   • 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:

     “Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.”
     […]
     “I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”

Translations

wraparound garment

• Catalan: pareo (ca) m
• French: paréo (fr) m
• Greek: παρεό (el) n (pareó)
• Italian: pareo (it) m
• Japanese: パレオ (ja)
• Polish: pareo (pl) n
• Portuguese: canga (pt) f (Brazil), pareô (pt) m
• Spanish: pareo (es) m
• Turkish: pareo

Further reading

• pareo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• opera

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French paréo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [pəˈɾe̞.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Central) [pəˈɾɛ.u]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [paˈɾe.o]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

pareo m (plural pareos)

1. pareo

Further reading

• “pareo”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

pareo m (plural pareos)

1. alternative spelling of paréo

Ido

Noun

pareo (plural parei)

1. parry

Derived terms

• parear

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈrɛ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɛo
• Hyphenation: pa‧rè‧o

Noun

pareo m (plural parei)

1. pareo (a wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong)

   Synonym: copricostume

Anagrams

• opera

Latin

Alternative forms

• parreō

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pāzēō, from earlier *pāzējō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- (“protect”). Cognates of Old Armenian հայիմ (hayim), Albanian pashë.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.re.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.re.o]

Verb

pāreō (present infinitive pārēre, perfect active pāruī, supine pāritum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to appear, be visible, be apparent, be observed

   Synonyms: appāreō, exorior, orior, coorior, obversor, oborior, prōcēdō

   Antonyms: concēdō, decēdō, cēdō, excēdō, pereō, intereō, discēdō

2. (with dative) to obey, submit to, be obedient to, to observe

   Synonyms: oboediō, exaudiō, obtemperō

   Antonym: recalcitrō

   Tibi sōlī pārēmus.

   We obey only you.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.238–239:

     Ille patris magnī pārēre parābat / imperiō...

     He was preparing to obey the order of his great Father...

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pāreō (second conjugation, impersonal in the passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pāreō		pārēs		pāret		pārēmus		pārētis		pārent
	imperfect	pārēbam		pārēbās		pārēbat		pārēbāmus		pārēbātis		pārēbant
	future	pārēbō		pārēbis		pārēbit		pārēbimus		pārēbitis		pārēbunt
	perfect	pāruī		pāruistī		pāruit		pāruimus		pāruistis		pāruērunt, pāruēre
	pluperfect	pārueram		pāruerās		pāruerat		pāruerāmus		pāruerātis		pāruerant
	future perfect	pāruerō		pārueris		pāruerit		pāruerimus		pārueritis		pāruerint
passive	present	—		—		pārētur		—		—		—
	imperfect	—		—		pārēbātur		—		—		—
	future	—		—		pārēbitur		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		pāritum est		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		pāritum erat		—		—		—
	future perfect	—		—		pāritum erit		—		—		—
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pāream		pāreās		pāreat		pāreāmus		pāreātis		pāreant
	imperfect	pārērem		pārērēs		pārēret		pārērēmus		pārērētis		pārērent
	perfect	pāruerim		pāruerīs		pāruerit		pāruerīmus		pāruerītis		pāruerint
	pluperfect	pāruissem		pāruissēs		pāruisset		pāruissēmus		pāruissētis		pāruissent
passive	present	—		—		pāreātur		—		—		—
	imperfect	—		—		pārērētur		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		pāritum sit		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		pāritum esset		—		—		—
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pārē		—		—		pārēte		—
	future	—		pārētō		pārētō		—		pārētōte		pārentō
passive	future	—		—		pārētor		—		—		—
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pārēre			pārērī			pārēns			—
future		pāritūrum esse			pāritum īrī			pāritūrus			pārendum
perfect		pāruisse			pāritum esse			—			pāritum
future perfect		—			pāritum fore			—			—
perfect potential		pāritūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pārendī		pārendō		pārendum		pārendō		pāritum		pāritū

Derived terms

• appāreō
• compāreō
• trānspāreō

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: parrere, parri, parriri
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: par
  • Romanian: părea
• Emilian: parair
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: parè
  • Dalmatian: pur
  • Italian: parere, parire
  • Neapolitan: parere
  • Sicilian: pàrriri
  • Venetan: parer
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: parê
  • Romansh: parair, pareir, parer
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: parer
  • Old French: paroir
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pārēscere (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pareo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
    
  • (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
    

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pareo, from Tahitian pāreu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈrɛ.ɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛɔ
• Syllabification: pa‧re‧o

Noun

pareo n (indeclinable)

1. pareo

Further reading

• “pareo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾeo/ [paˈɾe.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: pa‧re‧o

Etymology 1

Noun

pareo m (plural pareos)

1. pareo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pareo

1. first-person singular present indicative of parear

Further reading

• “pareo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025