clo

See also: CLO, Clo, cló, clò, and cło

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡slo]
• Hyphenation: clo

Noun

clo n

1. duty, tariff, customs duty (on export and import)

Declension

Declension of clo (hard neuter reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	clo	cla
genitive	cla	cel
dative	clu	clům
accusative	clo	cla
vocative	clo	cla
locative	cle, clu	clech
instrumental	clem	cly

Derived terms

• bezcelní
• celnice f
• celník m
• clít
• proclít

 

See also

• poplatek m
• daň f
• mýtné n

Further reading

• clo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• clo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• clo in Internetová jazyková příručka

Vietnamese

Chemical element
Cl
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Etymology

From French chlore, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [klɔ˧˧]

Noun

clo

1. chlorine

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *klọw, from Proto-Celtic *klāwos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (whence Latin clāvis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kloː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

clo m (plural cloeon or cloeau)

1. lock, bolt
2. impediment, difficulty
3. (prosody) consonance or correspondence of consonants in cynghanedd; often figurative
4. lock, brake; mechanism that explodes charge in gun
5. canal lock
6. cluster, bunch
7. (rugby) lock
8. conclusion

Derived terms

• ar glo (“locked”)
• clo adlam (“spring lock”)
• clo araith (“peroration”)
• clo bach (“appliance to keep the wheel of a vehicle from turning on a steep slope”, literally “little lock”)
• clo clap, clo clec, clo clwt, clo cramp, clo dibyn, clo llyffant, clo march (“padlock”)
• clo clicied (“clicket-lock, latch-lock”)
• clo cont (“chastity belt, girdle”)
• clo cyngan (“correspondence of two consonants or groups of consonants in cynghanedd; conclusion, close”)
• clo cywydd (“envoy, concluding couplet”)
• clo dryll (“lock of a gun”)
• clo egwyd (“padlock, fetterlock”)
• clo rheswm (“conclusion”)
• clo Sbaen (“Spanish padlock, chastity belt, girdle”)
• clo tân (“firelock”)
• clo trafod (“closure”)
• clofan (“enclave”)
• clo(’r) chwedl
• cyfnod clo (“lockdown”)
• tan glo ac allwydd (“under lock and key”)
• tan glo (“locked, locked up, under lock and key”)
• ynghlo, yng nghlo (“locked, locked up”)

 

Related terms

• cloi (“to lock, shut or bind fast, clinch; to conclude”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
clo	glo	nghlo	chlo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “clo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies