Po

Po

1. (chemistry) Symbol for polonium.

From Italian Po, from Latin Padus.

Po

1. The longest river in Italy, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

• OP, Op., op, op.

• IPA^(key): /poː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Short for Popo, a 17th-century reduplication of the first syllable of Podex, from Latin podex.

Po m (strong, genitive Pos, plural Pos)

1. buttocks

   Synonyms: Allerwertester, Hintern, Hinterteil, Popo, vier Buchstaben

der Po m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Po or des Pos)

1. Po (a river in Italy)

• “Po” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Po (Fluss)” in Duden online
• “Po (Hintern, Hinterteil)” in Duden online

Ultimately from Latin Padus, perhaps borrowed in this form from some Gallo-Italic variety to judge by the loss of /-d-/. On the other hand, should one assume that said loss occurred (irregularly) in Tuscany, the sound-changes from that point onward would be fairly straightforward: /ˈpa.o/ > /ˈpaw/ > /ˈpɔ/.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ/^*
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: Pò

Po m

1. Po (a river in Italy)

• padano

• IPA^(key): /pôː/

Pȏ m (Cyrillic spelling По̑)

1. the river Po

   Synonym: Pȃd

From Hokkien 傅 (Pò͘).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo/, [ˈpo]

Po (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien