avo

Abbreviation of English Agavotaguerra.

avo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Agavotaguerra.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Agavotaguerra terms

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːvəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈævəʉ/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːvəʊ

Borrowed from Portuguese avo.

avo (plural avos)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.

Clipping of avocado.

avo (plural avos)

1. (informal, Australia, South Africa) Clipping of avocado.
   • 2007, Ken Albertsen, Farmsteading in Thailand, page 68:

     Given the challenges of trying to propagate avocados, one might wonder why we don't simply get hold of seeds and/or nursery starts and go that route – especially since avos tend to grow somewhat 'true to seed.'

   • 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE‎^[1]:

     But what would my trip be if I didn’t Instagram my food? I upload a picture of the avo toast with the caption “✨✨✨one of the prettiest red velvet rose latte i’ve ever seen !!! ✨✨✨✨ , despite the fact I have only ever seen one red velvet rose latte in my life.

• VOA, OAV, AoV, AOV, OVA, ova

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habəl (“weave cloth”).

avo

1. to weave

From Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os.

• IPA^(key): /ˈavo/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

  (file)

• Audio 3:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -avo
• Syllabification: a‧vo

avo (accusative singular avon, plural avoj, accusative plural avojn)

1. grandfather

   Mia avo estas la patro de mia patro. ― My grandfather is the father of my father.

2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) old man
   • 2009, “Fek al Esperanto! [Fuck Esperanto!]”, in Fek al Esperanto!‎^[2], performed by La Pafklik:

     Mi parolas pri merda lingvo
     Elpensita de stulta avo

     I'm talking about a shitty language
     Thought up by a stupid old man

• Avo Frosto

• “avo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “avo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑ̝ʋo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋo
• Syllabification^(key): a‧vo
• Hyphenation^(key): avo

avo

1. abbreviation of avokysymys

• “avo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Esperanto avo (“grandfather, grandparent”), Italian avo, Spanish abuelo and French aïeul, from Latin avus (“grandfather, ancestor, old man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂yos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈavo/

avo (plural avi)

1. grandparent

Akin to Finnish avo.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑʋo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋo/, [ˈɑʋo̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋo
• Hyphenation: a‧vo

avo

1. (in compounds) openness

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 24

From Latin avus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os. Compare Portuguese avô (“grandfather”) and avó (“grandmother”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: à‧vo

avo m (plural avi, feminine ava)

1. ancestor, forefather

   Synonyms: antenato, ascendente

   Antonyms: posteri, pronipoti

• avito
• bisavo
• trisavo

• ova

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qabu, from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Yami avo.

avo

1. ash

avō

1. dative/ablative singular of avus

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abaw; cognate with Javanese ambo.

avo

1. high
2. lofty, eminent

From the ending of oitavo.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Hyphenation: a‧vo

avo m (plural avos)

1. one of fractions/equal parts of a unit divided in more than 10 equal parts

   Doze avos de 240 são 20.

   A twelfth of 240 is 20.

   Três quinze avos = ³⁄₁₅.

   Three fifteenths = ³⁄₁₅

2. (numismatics) avo (one-hundredth of a pataca)

• “avo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

From Proto-Philippine *qabu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qabu, from Proto-Austronesian *qabu. Cognate with Ivatan avo.

avo

1. ash