Po

See also: PO, po, Pô, and Appendix:Variations of "po"

Translingual

Symbol

Po

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for polonium.

English

Etymology

From Italian Po, from Latin Padus.

Proper noun

Po

  1. The longest river in Italy, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

Translations

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /poː/
  • Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Short for Popo, a 17th-century reduplication of the first syllable of Podex, from Latin podex.

Noun

Po m (strong, genitive Pos, plural Pos)

  1. buttocks
    Synonyms: Allerwertester, Hintern, Hinterteil, Popo, vier Buchstaben
Declension
Declension of Po [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Po die Pos
genitive eines des Pos der Pos
dative einem dem Po den Pos
accusative einen den Po die Pos

Proper noun

der Po m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Po or des Pos)

  1. Po (a river in Italy)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin Padus, through the accusative form *Paum > *Pau > Po.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ/*
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Hyphenation: Pò

Proper noun

Po m

  1. Po (a river in Italy)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pôː/

Proper noun

Pȏ m (Cyrillic spelling По̑)

  1. the river Po

Synonyms

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 傅 (Pò͘).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpo/, [ˈpo]

Proper noun

Po

  1. a surname from Min Nan of Chinese origin
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