aleo

See also: Aleo, áleo, and aleó

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Allee and Polish aleja, both borrowed from French allée. Compare English alley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈleo]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: a‧le‧o

Noun

aleo (accusative singular aleon, plural aleoj, accusative plural aleojn)

1. path (of a garden, park, etc.)
2. allée, tree-lined street or avenue

   Synonym: bulvardo

See also

• avenuo
• strateto
• vojo

Latin

Etymology

From ālea (“die; game of dice”) +‎ -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.le.oː/, [ˈäːɫ̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.le.o/, [ˈäːleo]

Noun

āleō m (genitive āleōnis); third declension

1. gambler, gamester
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 29:

     Quis hoc potest videre, quis potest pati,
     nisi impudicus et vorax et aleo

     Who can see this, who can stand it,
     save the shameless, the glutton, and gambler

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āleō	āleōnēs
Genitive	āleōnis	āleōnum
Dative	āleōnī	āleōnibus
Accusative	āleōnem	āleōnēs
Ablative	āleōne	āleōnibus
Vocative	āleō	āleōnēs

Related terms

• ālea
• āleātor

References

• “aleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aleo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

aleo

1. first-person singular present indicative of alear