allo

From Latin allium.

allo ?

1. Garlic

• IPA^(key): /a.lo/

allo

1. Alternative spelling of allô

This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.

From Latin allium. Cognate with Portuguese alho and Spanish ajo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaʎʊ]

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)

• allada
• allo porro

• “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.

• prep a + article lo

• Rhymes: -allo

allo

1. contraction of a lo; to the, at the

• al

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɬɔ/

allo

1. Soft mutation of gallo.