kero

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Abbreviation of kerosene.

kero (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Kerosene.
   • 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 129:

     ‘Need a bit more kero,’ he'd say. ‘How about trotting down to town for it?’

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 293:

     The hessian hut glowed yellow with the light of a kero lamp.

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• qero

kero (plural keros)

1. A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

• Kore, kore, oker, roke

kero

1. to dance

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

From French cœur. Doublet of koro.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkero]

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: ke‧ro

kero (accusative singular keron, plural keroj, accusative plural kerojn)

1. (card games) the suit of hearts, marked with the symbol ♥

• keroj (“hearts (card game)”)

Suits in Esperanto · emblemoj (layout · text)
kero	karoo, rombo	piko	trefo

• IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈk̟e̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation^(key): ke‧ro

Borrowing from Sami, compare Northern Sami čearru, from Proto-Samic *čearō.

kero (archaic)

1. A round, treeless top of a fell; now mostly in place names and compounds.

• “kero”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *keroi.

kero (dialectal, obsolete)

1. throat

   Synonym: kurkku

• kore

From Proto-Finnic *kiro. Cognates include Finnish kiro.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈke̞ro̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈke̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: ke‧ro

kero

1. curse

Declension of kero (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	kero	kerot
genitive	keron	kerroin, keroloin
partitive	kerroa	keroja, keroloja
illative	kerroo	kerroi, keroloihe
inessive	keros	kerois, kerolois
elative	kerost	keroist, keroloist
allative	kerolle	keroille, keroloille
adessive	kerol	keroil, keroloil
ablative	kerolt	keroilt, keroloilt
translative	keroks	keroiks, keroloiks
essive	keronna, kerroon	keroinna, keroloinna, kerroin, keroloin
exessive1)	keront	keroint, keroloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 157

kero

1. Rōmaji transcription of けろ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ケロ

kero (Latin spelling)

1. first-person singular present indicative of kerer

• quero

kero m (plural keros)

1. kero (Inca wooden drinking vessel)

From -kera (“to annoy”) +‎ -o.

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kero (n class, plural kero)

1. annoyance, nuisance