povo

From povi +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpovo/
• Hyphenation: po‧vo
• Rhymes: -ovo

povo (accusative singular povon, plural povoj, accusative plural povojn)

1. ability

povo (plural povi)

1. ability
2. power

• (ability): habileso

• povar

From Old Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.vu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.vo/

povo m (plural povos)

1. people
2. hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)
3. (Brazil) mob

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:povo.

• (hamlet): lugarejo

• população, popular
• povoado, povoar