Angelo
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈæn.dʒə.loʊ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈæn.hə.loʊ/
Proper noun
  1. A male given name.
    • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii], page 63 ↗, column 2:
      I haue deliuerd to Lord Angelo / (A man of ſtricture and firme abſtinence) / My abſolute power, and place here in Vienna,
    • 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter V”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, OCLC 799455878 ↗, page 74 ↗:
      Luigi — Angelo. They're lovely names; and so grand and foreign — not like Jones and Robinson and such.
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