lo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊ/

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• Homophones: low, Lowe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā (“exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy”). Conflated in Middle English with lo! (interjection), a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.

lo

1. (archaic) look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii:

     Caliban: Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

   • 1925, Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translated by Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor:

     Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue. As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.

• lo and behold

Variant of low.

lo (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of low.

• lo-cal
• lo-tech

• hi
• mid

lo

1. (colloquial) hello ('lo; see hallo)

• -ol, OL, Ol., ol, ol'

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illud, neuter of ille.

lo n sg (masculine el, feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

lo

1. it (third-person singular neuter direct pronoun)

lo

1. sleep

• lo egin 'sleep' (verb)
• logela 'bedroom'

• Rhymes: -o

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille.

lo (enclitic, contracted 'l, proclitic el, contracted proclitic l')

1. him (direct object)

From Latin illum, from ille.

lo m (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (archaic or dialectal) the (definite article)

   Synonym: el (standard)

• “lo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lo” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “lo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

lo

1. I

lo

1. (neologism, mostly in compounds) Lolita fashion

   lo娘  ―  lo niáng  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

• IPA^(key): [loː]

lo f (plural loyow)

1. spoon

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lo (accusative singular lo-on, plural lo-oj, accusative plural lo-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

See o. Compare Portuguese lo.

lo m sg (feminine singular la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. Alternative form of o (“the”, masculine singular)

The l- forms of article are compulsorily used after the preposition por and adverb u. It is optional when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, after unstressed pronouns nos, vos and lles (when they are enclitc) of ambos, entrambos, todos, tras and copulative conjunction (e mais and tonic pronouns vós and nós followed by a numerical precision).

• la
• o

lo m (accusative)

1. Alternative form of o (“him”)

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word.

• la
• no
• o

Back-formation from co (“this”), to (“that”), based on la (“the”), ol (“it”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /lo/, /lɔ/

lo

1. referring to a previous sentence or phrase, i.e. a fact rather than an object; it, the

   Il esas mortinta de tri monati, e vu ne savas lo!

   He's been dead for three months, and you didn't know it (that he's been dead for three months)!

lo

1. it, that (direct object)

   Tu lo audi? – Do you hear it?

• illo

• IPA^(key): /lo/
• Rhymes: -o

From a Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, illud, the accusative singular of ille, by dropping il- and -m. [1]

lo m sg (plural gli)

1. The form of il that is used before the so-called impure consonants, that is, s+consonant (impure s), gn, pn, ps, x or z; before a vowel it becomes l'; the

   l’osso ― the bone

   lo stato ― the state

   lo zio ― the uncle

From Latin illum, the accusative singular of ille.

• -lo (enclitic)

lo m sg (plural li, female la)

1. (accusative) him

   Lo conosci? ― Do you know him?

2. (accusative) it, this or that thing

   Synonym: ciò

   Quando te lo diedi. ― When I gave it to you.

lo

1. to go

   Synonyms: kako, attu

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “lo”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 60

lo

1. come

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

• IPA^(key): /loː/

lo

1. Alternative form of elo

lo (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄛ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 咯

• Almost all syllables transliterated from Chinese speech contain one of four diacritics indicating tone. This is one of the few syllables in the Chinese language that is transcribed only in a toneless form.
• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Dutch *lō, from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz.

lô f or n

1. clearing in a forest

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• lôon

• Dutch: lo (obsolete outside toponyms)

• “loo”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “loo”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

lo

1. Alternative form of 'o

lo n (definite singular loet, uncountable)

1. lint

• loe

lo

1. past tense of le

• IPA^(key): /luː/

From Old Norse ló, lóa.

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. any of various birds of the family Charadriidae, the plovers and dotterels

• heilo

lo

1. past tense of le

• “lo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

lo (genitive lon, plural los)

1. he; him

• la
• le

• lou (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum.

lo (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old Occitan lo.

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular oblique definite article

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular object pronoun

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old French lo.

lo (feminine la)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

• Occitan: lo

From Portuguese logo ("soon") and Spanish luego ("soon, later").

lo

Indicates the future tense of a verb.

1. shall
2. will

See o.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlu/
• Hyphenation: lo

lo

1. Alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

   Contá-lo (contar) ― To tell it.

   Contamo-lo (contamos) ― We told it.

   Fi-lo (fiz) ― I did it.

• no (following a nasal vowel), o (following an oral vowel)

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad

From Latin lātus.

lo m (feminine singular loa, masculine plural los, feminine plural loas)

1. (Sutsilvan) wide, broad

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) lartg
• (Puter, Vallader) larg

lo

1. by, at, on
2. to
3. for

From a Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu. Masculine pronoun from Latin illum, singular masculine accusative of ille. Neuter article and pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille. Compare Portuguese o.

• IPA^(key): /lo/

lo

1. neuter definite article used to make abstract nouns from adjectives; the

   lo pobre

   the poorness (about)

   the poor (thing about)

   that (which is) poor (about)

lo

1. Accusative of él, ello, and usted (when referring to a man); him, it, you (formal)

   lo veo

   I see it

2. impersonal neuter pronoun; it, that

   lo es

   so it is

lo

1. oh!

• IPA^(key): /luː/

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lo c

1. a lynx

• lodjur
• lounge

From English law.

lo

1. law

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 慮 (“be concerned,worry about”; SV: lự).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]

lo (𢗼, 𢥈)

1. to bother, to worry, to attend to

lo m

1. Soft mutation of llo.

lo m

1. Soft mutation of glo.

From Old Norse ló f. Cognate with Norwegian lo f, luv m, Old English wlōh f. Related to Old Norse lagðr m (“tuft of wool or hair”).

lo n

1. fluff
2. dust (of tissues)
3. fringe of cloth and other textiles

From Middle Low German lōt, from Proto-Germanic *laudą.

lo n

1. plummet

From Old Norse lófi, láfi (“threshing barn”). Cognate with Norwegian låve, Swedish loge.

lo m

1. threshing barn

• langlo (“oblong barn”)

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

-lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /lo/

lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “lo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lo (3-8)”