paro
Ainu
Alternative forms

Pronunciation
Noun
paro (Kana spelling パロ)Category:Ainu lemmas#PAROCategory:Ainu nouns#PAROCategory:Ainu terms with redundant script codes#PAROCategory:Ainu entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Asturian
Verb
paroCategory:Asturian non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Asturian verb forms#PAROCategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Balinese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old JavaneseCategory:Balinese terms borrowed from Old Javanese#PAROCategory:Balinese terms derived from Old Javanese#PARO paro, parwa (“half”), from SanskritCategory:Balinese terms derived from Sanskrit#PARO पर्व (parva), पर्वन् (parvan, “division, section”). Doublet of parwa (“part of the Mahābhārata”)Category:Balinese doublets#PARO.
Pronunciation
Verb
paro (Balinese script ᬧᬭᭀ)Category:Balinese lemmas#PAROCategory:Balinese verbs#PAROCategory:Balinese entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- to half
Further reading
- “paro”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
paroCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Catalan verb forms#PAROCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Esperanto terms borrowed from German#PAROCategory:Esperanto terms derived from German#PARO Paar, ultimately from LatinCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Latin#PARO pār (“equal, like, suitable”). Cognate with English peer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈparo/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#PAROCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#PARO
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#PAROAudio 1: (file)
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#PAROAudio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -aroCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/aro#PAROCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/aro/2 syllables#PARO
- Syllabification: pa‧ro
Noun
paro (accusative singular paron, plural paroj, accusative plural parojn)Category:Esperanto lemmas#PAROCategory:Esperanto nouns#PAROCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- pair (two similar or identical things)
- couple (two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship)
- Hyponyms: geedzoj (“(mixed-sex) married couple”), gefianĉoj (“engaged couple”)
Hypernyms
- -aro (“group, collection”)
Derived terms
- pare (“pairwise, in a pair”)
Further reading
- “paro”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “paro”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
French
Etymology
Popularised by rapper Kery James in 2009.
Pronunciation
Adjective
paro (invariable)Category:French lemmas#PAROCategory:French adjectives#PAROCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- (slangCategory:French slang#PARO) neurotic, crazy
- 2013, “Dernière danse”, in Mini World, performed by Indila:
- Sans lui je suis un peu paro / Je déambule seule dans le métroCategory:French terms with quotations#PARO
- Without him I go a bit crazy / I wander on my own in the metro
Galician
Verb
paroCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Galician verb forms#PAROCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Ido
Pronunciation
Noun
paroCategory:Ido lemmas#PAROCategory:Ido nouns#PAROCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO (plural pari)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Numeral
paroCategory:Indonesian lemmas#PAROCategory:Indonesian numerals#PAROCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Italian
Etymology
Derived from LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#PARO paria
Pronunciation
Noun
paro m (plural (archaic) para f[3])Category:Italian lemmas#PAROCategory:Italian nouns#PAROCategory:Italian countable nouns#PAROCategory:Italian nouns that change gender in the plural#PAROCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Italian masculine nouns#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO (RomanescoCategory:Romanesco Italian#PARO, central ItalyCategory:Central Italian#PARO[4]; uncommonCategory:Italian uncommon terms#PARO)
Usage notes
Noun
paro m (plural pari)Category:Italian lemmas#PAROCategory:Italian nouns#PAROCategory:Italian countable nouns#PAROCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Italian masculine nouns#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- literary form of pari (“peer”)Category:Italian literary forms#PARO[5]
Verb
paroCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Italian verb forms#PAROCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
References
- ↑ paro in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
- ↑ paro → pari in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
- 1 2 paro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ↑ paro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- ↑ pari in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
Anagrams
Javanese
Romanization
paroCategory:Javanese non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Javanese romanizations#PAROCategory:Javanese terms with redundant script codes#PAROCategory:Javanese entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- romanization of ꦥꦫꦺꦴ
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#PAROCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PARO *perh₃-o (“providing”), from *perh₃- (“to grant”). Cognate with pariō (“to produce”), properus (“ready”), Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “to give, furnish”), Old Irish ernaid (“to grant, bestow”) Sanskrit पृणाति (pṛṇā́ti, “to grant, bestow”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#PARO.[1]
(to adorn, to ornament): compare typologically Latin ōrnō, Russian наряжа́ть (narjažátʹ) (akin to поря́док (porjádok)).
Pronunciation
Verb
parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum)Category:Latin lemmas#PAROCategory:Latin verbs#PAROCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO; first conjugation
- to arrange, order, contrive, design
- to provide, furnish, prepare
- Synonyms: exōrnō, adōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, apparō, īnstruō, accingō, suggerō, comparō, afferō, ministrō
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.15:
- […] Manum cōnsulum et prīncipium cīvitātis interficiendōrum causā parāvisse?
- [Are you aware that we know that] a band [of assassins] had been prepared for the purpose of killing the consuls and the leading men of the state?
- […] Manum cōnsulum et prīncipium cīvitātis interficiendōrum causā parāvisse?
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 29.4:
- munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare
- to strengthen the defences of the city, to accumulate stores of grain, to prepare a supply of weapons and armour
- munire urbem, frumentum convehere, tela arma parare
- to resolve, purpose, decide
- to get, acquire, obtain, procure, make
- (Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#PARO) to adorn, ornament
- (Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#PARO) to learn by heart
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: parare
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
Etymology 2
From pār (“equal”).
Pronunciation
Verb
parō (present infinitive parāre, perfect active parāvī, supine parātum)Category:Latin lemmas#PAROCategory:Latin verbs#PAROCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO; first conjugation
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
pārōCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Latin noun forms#PAROCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
References
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “parō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 446-7
Further reading
- “paro1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "paro", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “paro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to prepare to do a thing: parare with Inf.
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
- to take measures for..: parare aliquid
- to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere
- to make preparations for a marriage: nuptias parare
- to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
- to make preparations for war: bellum parare
- (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
- (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
- (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
- (ambiguous) to be ready to endure anything: omnia perpeti paratum esse
- (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
- (ambiguous) to be a match for the enemy: parem (opp. imparem) esse hosti
- (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
- to prepare to do a thing: parare with Inf.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “paro”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
Neapolitan
Alternative forms
Noun
paro mCategory:Neapolitan lemmas#PAROCategory:Neapolitan nouns#PAROCategory:Neapolitan entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Neapolitan masculine nouns#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Old Javanese
Noun
paroCategory:Old Javanese lemmas#PAROCategory:Old Javanese nouns#PAROCategory:Old Javanese entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- alternative spelling of parwa
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
paroCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Pali adjective forms#PAROCategory:Pali adjective forms in Latin script#PAROCategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- masculine nominative singular of para (“other”)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.rɔ/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#PAROCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#PARO
- Rhymes: -arɔCategory:Rhymes:Polish/arɔ#PAROCategory:Rhymes:Polish/arɔ/2 syllables#PARO
- Syllabification: pa‧ro
Noun
paroCategory:Polish non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Polish noun forms#PAROCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
paroCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Portuguese verb forms#PAROCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaɾo/ [ˈpa.ɾo]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#PAROCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#PARO
- Rhymes: -aɾoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾo#PAROCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾo/2 syllables#PARO
- Syllabification: pa‧ro
Etymology 1
Deverbal from pararCategory:Spanish deverbals#PARO.
Noun
paro m (plural paros)Category:Spanish lemmas#PAROCategory:Spanish nouns#PAROCategory:Spanish countable nouns#PAROCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
- stagnation, freeze up
- unemployment
- Synonyms: cesantía, desempleo
- en paro ― unemployedCategory:Spanish terms with collocations#PARO
- strike (work stoppage)
- Synonym: huelga
- cardiac arrest, ellipsis of paro cardiaco
- (MexicoCategory:Mexican Spanish#PARO) pretext
- Synonyms: excusa, pretexto
- Puros paros para no trabajar
- Just pretexts for not working
- (MexicoCategory:Mexican Spanish#PARO) a favour, help, cover-up, (preceded by hacerle un, hacerme un, to indicate "to do someone a favour", "to help someone", "to protect someone by lying")
- Hazme un paro, no le digas que estoy aquí
- Protect me, do not tell him/her that I am here
- Hazle un paro a Juan, tiene que meter todas esas cajas
- Help Juan, he must store all those boxes
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
paroCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Spanish verb forms#PAROCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
paroCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#PAROCategory:Spanish verb forms#PAROCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PAROCategory:Pages with entries#PAROCategory:Pages with 18 entries#PARO
Further reading
- “paro”, 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