imo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "imo"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Imbongu.

Symbol

imo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Imbongu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Imbongu terms

English

Prepositional phrase

imo

1. Alternative form of IMO.

See also

• satsuma imo

Anagrams

• IOM, MOI, Mio, mo'i, moi, omi

Aklanon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *imu.

Pronoun

imo

1. you

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• imoha

Etymology

From *-mu (“2sg. possessor and agent of passive verb”). Cognate with Tagalog iyo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔimo/ [ˈʔi.mo]
• Hyphenation: i‧mo

Determiner

imo (Badlit spelling ᜁᜋᜓ)

1. 2nd person singular preposed possessive pronoun: your

   Coordinate terms: (postposed) nimo, imoha

Pronoun

imo (Badlit spelling ᜁᜋᜓ)

1. 2nd person singular preposed indirect-marked pronoun
   1. (possessive) yours
   2. (object of a verb) (by) you

Noun

imo

1. (slang, humorous) one's genitalia

See also

Cebuano personal pronouns

			direct		indirect (postposed)		indirect (preposed)		oblique
	Length:		full	short1	full	short2	base	suffixed -a	full	short
singular	first person		akó	ko	nakò3	ko3	akò	akoa	kanakò	nakò
	second person		ikáw	ka	nimo	mo	imo	imoha	kanimo	nimo
	third person		siyá		niya		iya	iyaha	kaniya	niya
plural	first person	inclusive	kitá	ta	natò	ta	atò	atoa	kanatò	natò
		exclusive	kamí	mi	namò		amò	amoa	kanamò	namò
	second person		kamó	mo	ninyo		inyo	inyoha	kaninyo	ninyo
	third person		silá		nila		ila	ilaha	kanila	nila

¹ Forms in this column are placed after the verb or predicate they modify, and never used at the start of sentences.
² Forms in this column are literary and rarely used colloquially.
³ Ta is used over nako or ko where the focus is a second-person singular pronoun.

Italian

FWOTD – 17 January 2016

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: ì‧mo

Etymology 1

From Latin īmus, superlative form of īnferus (“low”, “deep”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér.

Adjective

imo (feminine ima, masculine plural imi, feminine plural ime) (obsolete, poetic)

1. (literal) located in the lowest or innermost part
2. (by extension) low, deep

   Synonym: infero

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Pommi ove 'l sole occide i fiori et l'erba”, in Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini, published 1858, p.143):

     Ponm' in cielo od in terra od in abisso, ¶ in alto poggio, in valle ima e palustre, ¶ libero spirto, od a' suoi membri affisso; [...]

     Set me in heaven, on earth, or in the depths, ¶ on a high hill, or in a deep marshy vale, ¶ a spirit freed, or imprisoned in its limbs; [...]

   • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, “La selva primitiva” (Juvenilia, Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli (1906), p. 109, Libro LVII), vv. 43-44:

     [...] un tremor gelido ¶ per l'ossa ime gli corse; e s'atterrava, ¶ e gemea [...]

     [...] a freezing chill ¶ ran through his deep bones; and he dropped ¶ and wailed [...]

3. (figurative) of a low social status (of people)
   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, Erasmo Viotti, p.222, Canto IX:

     Miete i vili, e i potenti: e i più sublimi ¶ e più superbi capi adegua agl’imi.

     It breaks vile and mighty alike: and makes the noblest ¶ and proudest leaders one with the lowest.

4. (rare, figurative) inappropriate, vulgar, uncouth (of things)

Related terms

• inferiore
• infero
• infimo

Etymology 2

From Latin īmum, substantivization of the neuter form of īmus (“lowest”, “deepest”).

Noun

imo m (plural imi)

1. (obsolete) bottom; base

   Synonyms: (more common) base, (more common) fondo

   Antonyms: apice, culmine, sommità, vetta

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXIX, p. 430, vv. 37-39:

     Così parlammo infino al loco primo ¶ che dello scoglio l'altra valle mostra, ¶ se più lume vi fosse, tutto ad imo.

     Thus did we speak as far as the first place ¶ upon the crag, which the next valley shows ¶ down to the bottom, if there were more light.

Anagrams

• mio, mio-

Japanese

Romanization

imo

1. Rōmaji transcription of いも

Latin

Etymology 1

Variant form.

Adverb

imō (not comparable)

1. alternative form of immō
   • c. 405, Saint Jerome, Epistola 106:

     Quis hoc crederet, ut barbara Getarum lingua Hebraicam quaereret veritatem; et dormitantibus, imo contendentibus Graecis, ipsa Germania Spiritus Sancti eloquia scrutaretur!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

īmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īmus

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

īmō n

1. dative/ablative singular of īmum (“bottom, base”)

References

• “imo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Regularised form.

Verb

imo

1. (proscribed, Caipira) first-person plural future indicative of ir

Umbundu

Noun

imo (i-ova class, plural ovamo)

1. belly

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *himo.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈimo/, [ˈimo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: i‧mo

Noun

imo

1. wish, desire
2. appetite

Inflection

Declension of imo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	imo	imod
genitive	imo	imojõ, imoi
partitive	immoa	imoitõ, imoi
illative	immosõ, immo	imoisõ
inessive	imoz	imoiz
elative	imossõ	imoissõ
allative	imolõ	imoilõ
adessive	imollõ	imoillõ
ablative	imoltõ	imoiltõ
translative	imossi	imoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “imo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn