almo

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈmo/ [ʔʌlˈmɔ]
• Hyphenation: al‧mo

Noun

almó f

1. waste

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 51

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin almus (“nourishing; kind”), from Proto-Italic *almos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elmos, derived from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.mo/
• Rhymes: -almo
• Hyphenation: àl‧mo

Adjective

almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almi, feminine plural alme) (literary)

1. nourishing; life-giving

   Synonym: (literary) altore

2. (by extension) great, noble, magnificent

   Synonyms: grande, magnifico, nobile

Related terms

• alimento
• altore
• alunno

Further reading

• “almo”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• Mola, lamo, malo, mola

Latin

Adjective

almō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of almus

References

• “almo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “almo”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “almo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “almo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin almus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalmo/ [ˈal.mo]
• Rhymes: -almo
• Syllabification: al‧mo

Adjective

almo (feminine alma, masculine plural almos, feminine plural almas) (poetic)

1. nourishing

   Synonym: alimenticio

2. venerable

   Synonym: venerable

Further reading

• “almo”, 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