Milo 716387 224764629 2008-07-10T09:16:09Z Thomas Milo 1692996 Major editing job, more detail {{Wiktionary}} {{TOCright}} '''Milo''' is a male name of with various different totally unrelated and partly uncertain origins. In French context: the name Milo can be traced to a diminutive of the first name "Emile", originally spelled Millot" or "Milot". It originates from the same environment where Diderot occurs as diminutive of Didier. In Latin context: a very unlikely etymology derives Milo from the Latin [[Miles (first name)|Miles]] "a soldier". The problem here is that though Milo,, genitive Milonis, is attested as a name in Latin (through Cicero's Pro Milone, "In defense of Milo", there is no derivational pattern in Latin that justifies the connection with "miles". In Germanic context: no Germanic name Milo is known. A possible derivation may be from a Germanic word meaning "mild", as suggested in an earlier version of this article needs to be corroborated with an instance of a Germanic "Milo". In Slavic context: milo- occurs in composite nouns and names, e.g., Miloslav. In this context the name "Milo" is originally an affective abbreviation. The underlying Slavonic root ''milu'' means "merciful". In Hebrew context: Milo is an abbreviation of the Hebrew name MI "who" KHA "like" IL "god", alias Michael meaning "who resembles God".<ref>[http://www.babynamer.com/Milo "Milo on BabyNamer"]</ref> <ref>[http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Milo.html "Origin and Meaning of the Name Milo"]</ref> In Greek Context: The famous Venus de Milo was in fact the Greek goddess Aphrodite (her Roman counterpart is Venus) found on the Greek Island of Melos, Latinized as Milo. Other references may refer to: ==Places== * [[Milo, Alberta]], a village in Alberta, Canada * [[Milo, Ethiopia]] * [[Milo, Italy]], a ''comune'' in the Province of Catania on the island of Sicily * [[Milo, Tanzania]] * In the United States: ** [[Milo, Indiana]] ** [[Milo, Iowa]] ** [[Milo, Maine]] ** [[Milo, Missouri]] ** [[Milo, New York]] ** [[Milo, Oklahoma]] * [[Milos]] (formerly Melos), a Greek island in the Aegean Sea * [[Milo River]] in [[Guinea]] ==People== * [[Milo, Bishop of Reims and Trier]] * [[Milo of Croton]], ancient Greek athlete * [[Milo Aukerman]], American biochemist and lead singer of the punk rock band the Descendents * [[Milo Đukanović]], former prime minister and president of Montenegro * [[Candi Milo]], American voice actress * [[Luciano Milo]], Italian figure skater * [[Titus Annius Milo]], ancient Roman politician and gangster * [[Milo O'Shea]], Irish actor * [[Milo Radulovich]], American military veteran suspected of communist sympathizing during the Second Red Scare; portrayed in the movie ''Good Night, and Good Luck'' * [[Milo Ventimiglia]], American film actor ==Products== * [[MILO]] - Mechatronics Intelligent Lovable Organism - Developed by [[RoboDynamics]], MILO is a Telepresence Robot Platform that was debuted in October 2004 ==Fictional characters== * Milo, a [[List of The Land Before Time characters#Milo, Lydia, and Plower|rodent-like mammal]] in the "Stranger From the Mysterious Above" episode of the American television series ''The Land Before Time'' * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167284/ Milo], the title character of a 1998 horror film * Milo, the main character in Norton Juster's children's classic ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' * [[Milo Bloom]], the resident journalist in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip ''[[Bloom County]]'' * [[Milo Kerrigan]], a "punch-drunk" boxer in the Australian television series ''Full Frontal'' * [[Milo Minderbinder]], a character in Joseph Heller's novel ''[[Catch-22]]'' * [[Milo Pressman]], a computer analyst in the American television series ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'' * [[Milo Rambaldi]], a medieval alchemist, engineer and mystic in the American television series ''[[Alias]]'' * [[Milo James Thatch]], the main character in the Disney animated films ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and ''Atlantis: Milo's Return'' * [[List of Gaunt's Ghosts characters#Trooper Brin Milo|Brin Milo]], a character in Dan Abnett's ''Warhammer 40,000'' novel series * [[Scorpio Milo]], a character from the [[Saint Seiya]] series of manga created by [[Masami Kurumada]] * [[Professor Milo]], an enemy of [[Batman]] in the [[DC Comics]] universe. * Milo, the orange tabby cat in the film ''The Adventures of Milo and Otis'' ==Other meanings== * Milo, a common name for some varieties of [[commercial sorghum]] * [[Milo (drink)]], a brand name of chocolate malt drink by Nestlé * [[Milo (magazine)|''Milo'' (magazine)]], a strength sports magazine * [[MILO (boot loader)]], a firmware replacement used for booting Linux on older Alpha AXP hardware * [[MILO (game)|''MILO'' (game)]], a first-person adventure-puzzle computer game * [[Yourcodenameis:milo]], a UK post-hardcore band * [[Venus de Milo]], a famous ancient Greek statue * [[Milo (dog)]], Stanley Ipkiss' pet dog in the movie 'The Mask' ==See also== * [[Mylo (disambiguation)]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{disambig}} [[de:Milo]] [[es:Milo (desambiguación)]] [[eo:Milo]] [[fr:Milo (homonymie)]] [[it:Milo]] [[pl:Milo]] [[sr:Мило]] [[vo:Milo]]