Palo

Palo

1. A surname.
2. A city in Iowa
3. (religion) an Afro-Cuban syncretic religion.

• OLAP, Opal, POLA, alop, aplo-, opal, pola

From palo, usually referring to a burnt-out clearing in the woods.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlo/, [ˈpɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧lo

Palo

1. a Finnish surname from landscape
2. name of many small places in Finland.

• Palojärvi
• Palokangas
• Palomäki
• Palonen
• Palosaari

• Palo is the 776^th (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 1,132 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Alpo, lapo, pola

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.loː/, [ˈpäɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lo/, [ˈpäːlo]

Palō m sg (genitive Palōnis); third declension

1. A river in Italy

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Palo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Waray-Waray palo (“hammer; mace; mallet; sledge”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palu (“to hammer, to hit with a hard implement”), from Proto-Austronesian *palu (“to hammer, pound, hit”). Compare Tagalog palo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈloʔ/ [pɐˈloʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: Pa‧lo

Palô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓ)

1. Palo (a municipality of Leyte, Philippines)

• Leyte

• “Palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018