ralo
Galician
    
    Etymology 1
    
Perhaps from or related to Medieval Latin rallus. Compare English rail.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈralʊ]
Etymology 2
    
From Old Galician-Portuguese *rãelo, from a Proto-Galician ranello: ra + -elo, "little frog". Cognate with Portuguese ralo.
Alternative forms
    
- relo, renlo
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈralʊ]
Related terms
    
References
    
- “ralo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ralo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ralo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁa.lu/ [ˈha.lu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʁa.lu/ [ˈχa.lu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁa.lo/ [ˈha.lo]
 
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁa.lu/
- Rhymes: -alu
- Hyphenation: ra‧lo
Etymology 1
    
From Old Galician-Portuguese ralo, from Latin rallum (“scraper”).
Etymology 2
    
From Old Galician-Portuguese ralo, from Latin rārus (“rare”). Doublet of raro.
Adjective
    
ralo (feminine rala, masculine plural ralos, feminine plural ralas)
- sparse (few and far apart)
Noun
    
ralo m (plural ralos)
- (Portugal) mole cricket (any of the large burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae)
- Synonyms: grilo-toupeira, (Brazil) paquinha, (Brazil) cachorrinho-da-terra
 
Serbo-Croatian
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Slavic *ordlo.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /râlo/
- Hyphenation: ra‧lo
Slovene
    
    Etymology
    
From Proto-Slavic *ordlo.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ràːlɔ/
Inflection
    
| Neuter, hard | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | rálo | ||
| gen. sing. | rála | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) | rálo | ráli | rála | 
| genitive (rodȋlnik) | rála | rál | rál | 
| dative (dajȃlnik) | rálu | ráloma | rálom | 
| accusative (tožȋlnik) | rálo | ráli | rála | 
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) | rálu | rálih | rálih | 
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | rálom | ráloma | ráli | 
Further reading
    
- “ralo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
    
    Etymology
    
From Old Spanish ralo, from Latin rārus. Doublet of raro.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈralo/ [ˈra.lo]
- Rhymes: -alo
- Syllabification: ra‧lo
Further reading
    
- “ralo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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