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• aristo
  aristo

  noun

  aristocrat.
• aristo-
  aristo-

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

aristo

¹ American  

[uh-ris-toh] / əˈrɪs toʊ /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.

plural

aristos

1. aristocrat.

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aristo- ² 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 British  

/ əˈrɪstəʊ, ˈærɪstəʊ /

noun

1. informal short for aristocrat

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Etymology

Origin of aristo¹

1860–65; by shortening; cf. -o

Origin of aristo-²

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

Example Sentences

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 • Apr. 8, 2020

He understands how to do the British aristo look better than anyone!

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2013

Instead of trying to look merely healthy—just naturally lustrous—women now strive to look as much as possible like a bewigged aristo of yore.

From Slate • May 14, 2012

Gimmick: Probably the whole swashbuckling British aristo thing.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2011

The stealthy sounds in the next room brought the movements of the aristo perfectly clear before his metal vision.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness