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alo

Verbum CEFR C2
[ˈa.ɫoː]

Definitiones

  1. to feed, to nourish, to nurture
  2. to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.)
  3. to cause (a thing) to continue over time: to further, to maintain, to sustain
  4. to encourage or promote the development (of a thing): to foster, to further, to promote (something)

Conjugation

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Aequivalentia

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עבריתזן
हिन्दीपालना
Bahasa Indonesiaasuhmenginang
Kurdînara
Te Reo Māoriukauka
Nederlandsnaderverder
Portuguêsadiante

Exempla

“Hominum gratia generatur, aluntur bestiae.”

It is for the sake of man that beasts are bred.

“Fastīdientis stomachī est multa dēgustāre; quae ubi varia sunt et dīversa, inquinant nōn alunt.”

It is [the sign] of an overly delicate stomach [merely] to taste many [foods]; for when these are varied and different, they pollute rather than nourish. (Seneca’s diet metaphor: the effect of superficially reading too many authors.)

“Bellum sē ipsum alet.”

The war will further itself.

Gradus CEFR

C2
Peritia
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR C2 — gradus peritia.
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