apolo

See also: Apolo and ápoló

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈpɔ.lu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈpɔ.lo/

  • Hyphenation: a‧po‧lo
Parnassius apollo

Noun

apolo m (plural apolos)

  1. Apollo (a very handsome young man)
  2. Apollo (Parnassius apollo, a European butterfly)

Yoruba
Ojú èèyàn tí àpólò ń ṣe

Etymology

From English Apollo 11, as conjunctivitis became more prevalent in Nigeria with the return of Apollo 11 the infection was believed to have been heralded by the moon visitors.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /à.k͡pó.lò/

Noun

àpólò

  1. conjunctivitis [from 1969]

References
  1. Yusuff, Ayo (2010) Yoruba Language Engineering: A Lexical Morphology Perspective, →ISBN
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