paro

Ainu

Alternative forms

Map of Ainu Language: Mouth

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

  1. (anatomyCategory:ain:Anatomy#PARO) mouth

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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

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

  1. 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

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

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

  1. pair (two similar or identical things)
  2. 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

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

  1. (slangCategory:French slang#PARO) neurotic, crazy

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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parar
  2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of parir

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)

  1. couple, pair

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

  1. Category:Indonesian cardinal numbers#PAROnonstandard form of paruh (half)Category:Indonesian nonstandard forms#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)

  1. alternative form of paio (pair)
    Alternative form: (apocopic) par

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

  1. 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of parare

References

  1. paro in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
  2. paro → pari in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
  3. 1 2 paro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  4. paro in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  5. 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

  1. romanization of ꦥꦫꦺꦴ

Latin

Etymology 1

    Category:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PAROCategory:Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *perh₃-#PAROCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#PARO

    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

    1. to arrange, order, contrive, design
      Synonyms: īnstruō, compōnō
    2. to provide, furnish, prepare
      Synonyms: exōrnō, adōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, apparō, īnstruō, accingō, suggerō, comparō, afferō, ministrō
    3. to resolve, purpose, decide
      Synonyms: statuō, cernō, dēcernō, cōnstituō, placeō
    4. to get, acquire, obtain, procure, make
      Synonyms: acquīrō, cōnsequor, pariō, lucror, adipīscor, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, potior, inveniō, comparō, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō
      Antonym: āmittō
      amīcōs parāreto make friends; to befriendCategory:Latin terms with usage examples#PARO
    5. (Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#PARO) to adorn, ornament
    6. (Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#PARO) to learn by heart
    Conjugation

    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Category:Latin first conjugation verbs#PAROCategory:Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -āv-#PARO
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

      Category:Latin terms suffixed with -o (denominative)#PAROCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#PARO

      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

      1. to equalize; to make equal
      Conjugation

      1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

      Category:Latin first conjugation verbs#PAROCategory:Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -āv-#PARO

      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

      1. dative/ablative singular of pārus

      References

      1. 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
        Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
      • 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

      1. pair
        Synonyms: paréglia, cócchia

      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

      1. 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

      1. masculine nominative singular of para (other)

      Polish

      Pronunciation

      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

      1. vocative singular of para

      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

      1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

      Spanish

      Pronunciation

      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

      1. stagnation, freeze up
      2. unemployment
        Synonyms: cesantía, desempleo
        en parounemployedCategory:Spanish terms with collocations#PARO
      3. strike (work stoppage)
        Synonym: huelga
      4. cardiac arrest, ellipsis of paro cardiaco
      5. (MexicoCategory:Mexican Spanish#PARO) pretext
        Synonyms: excusa, pretexto
        Puros paros para no trabajar
        Just pretexts for not working
        Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#PARO
      6. (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
        Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#PARO
        Hazle un paro a Juan, tiene que meter todas esas cajas
        Help Juan, he must store all those boxes
        Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#PARO
      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

      1. first-person singular present indicative of parar

      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

      1. first-person singular present indicative of parir

      Further reading

      Category:es:Diseases#PARO
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