English

Proper noun

Milo

1. A male given name.
   • 1989 Pat Cardigan, Patterns, Ursus Imprints, ISBN 094268107X, page 12:

     Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday.

   • 2011 Ali Smith, There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 9780241143407, page 191:

     Just one thing, if I may, Mark said. It's Miles, his name. Not Milo.

     Yeah, I know, Anna's always going on about that too. But Milo's better, Milo's got something about it, hasn't it? the man said. It's catchier. It's catching on round the camp, Milo, where Miles sounds a bit, well, wet. A bit middle class, you know?

Anagrams

• limo, moil

French

Etymology

Cognate to English Miles and Milo.

Proper noun

Milo m

1. A male given name.

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῆλος ‎(Mêlos).

Proper noun

Milo f

1. Milos (island of Greece)

English

Noun

milo ‎(uncountable)

1. (US) sorghum
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices

     When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight […]

Anagrams

• limo
• moil

Esperanto

Etymology

mil +‎ -o

Noun

milo ‎(accusative singular milon, plural miloj, accusative plural milojn)

1. thousand, a group of one thousand of something
   • 1912, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the eighth World Congress of Esperanto.

     El ĉiu milo da semoj, kiujn ni...pacience ĵetadis en la teron, apenaŭ unu ricevis radikojn.

     Out of every thousand seeds that we...patiently threw onto the earth, only one got roots.

Neapolitan

Noun

milo m

1. apple
2. apple tree

Synonyms

• (apple tree) - pede 'e mele

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mîlo/
• Hyphenation: mi‧lo

Adverb

mȉlo ‎(Cyrillic spelling ми̏ло)

1. dearly, kindly, cordially

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mydlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmìːlɔ/
• Tonal orthography: mílo

Noun

mílo n ‎(genitive míla, nominative plural míla)

1. soap

Declension

Adverb

mílo

1. movingly, touchingly
2. mildly, gently
3. leniently

Related terms

• mil
• milostno
• milost