almo

Meaning

  1. (literary) nourishing; life-giving
  2. (broadly, literary) great, noble, magnificent

Concepts

Hyphenated as
àl‧mo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈal.mo/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin almus (“nourishing; kind”), from Proto-Italic *almos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elmos, derived from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”).

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