aristo-

¹ American  

1. a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans (aristocratic ), or in the formation of compound words.

   aristotype.

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aristo ² American  

[uh-ris-toh] / əˈrɪs toʊ /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.

plural

aristos

1. aristocrat.

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aristo British  

/ əˈrɪstəʊ, ˈærɪstəʊ /

noun

1. informal short for aristocrat

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Etymology

Origin of aristo-¹

< Greek, combining form of áristos best, superlative of ari- probably a term specifying at first the upper class of society, the warrior caste; Ares, perhaps Aryan

Origin of aristo¹

1860–65; by shortening; -o

Example Sentences

The unexpected next big things turned out to be very particularly British: bad-waif Kate Moss, and cool aristo Stella Tennant, who arrived on the pages of British Vogue in 1993.

From The Guardian

"Once it came out that he was an 'aristo' it was all over," Stuart once said.

From BBC

Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself “eighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.”

From Los Angeles Times

They aren’t the first cohort of young, aristo women with a penchant for the powerband.

From The Guardian

The system, called Aristo, is an indication that in just the past several months researchers have made significant progress in developing A.I. that can understand languages and mimic the logic and decision-making of humans.

From New York Times