English

Noun

pareo ‎(plural pareos)

1. A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51

     [...] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough.

   • 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:

     “Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.”

     [...]

     “I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”

See also

• pareo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• opera

Ido

Noun

pareo (plural parei)

1. parry

Derived terms

• parear

Italian

Noun

parei m ‎(plural parei)

1. pareo (A wraparound garment, worn by men or women, similar to a Malaysian sarong)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pāsēō, Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- ‎(“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- ‎(“protect”). Cognates of Old Armenian հայիմ ‎(hayim), Albanian pashë.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.re.oː/

Verb

pāreō ‎(present infinitive pārēre, perfect active pāruī, supine pāritum); second conjugation

1. I appear, am visible, am apparent
2. (with dative) I obey, submit to, am obedient to

Inflection

• The only passive forms attested in Latin are the third-person singular forms.

Derived terms

• appāreō
• compāreō
• trānspāreō

Descendants

References

• pareo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pareo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pareo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
    
  • (ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
    

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pāreō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 445

Spanish

Verb

pareo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of parear.