co

See also Appendix:Variations of "co", and со

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Noun

co (plural cos)

1. (slang) company

Alternative forms

• co. , Co , Co.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

co third-person singular, gender-neutral (reflexive coself)

1. (neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream:

     Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

   • 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:

     At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]

   • 2004 April 1, "Pieira dos Lobos" (username), "Fern's Story two", alt.magick.serious, Usenet:

     A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.

2. (neologism) them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

Hyponyms

• (as subject): he, she
• (as object): him, her

Derived terms

• cos
• coself

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

co

1. what

   Co se děje? -- What is up?

   Co se stalo? -- What happened?

Conjunction

co

1. that

   Od té doby, co jsme spolu... -- Since we are together...

2. what

   Ví, co chce. -- He knows what he wants.

Declension

    declension of co

	singular	plural
nominative	co
genitive	čeho	—
dative	čemu	—
accusative	co	—
vocative		—
locative	čem	—
instrumental	čím	—

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Pronoun

co

1. what

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Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + masculine definite article o (“the”)

Contraction

co m. (feminine coa, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

1. with the

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Lojban

Cmavo

co

1. tanru inverter: written between the components of a compound words, it swaps the logical order

   zdani cukta

   book with the house-property

   zdani co cukta

   house with the book-property

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Old Irish

Adverb

co

1. (interrogative) how?

   Co·bbia mo ḟechtas – "How will my expedition be?"

Usage notes

Is followed by the dependent form of the verb, which is neither nasalized nor lenited.

Preposition

co

1. to, toward

Descendants

• chuig, chun, go
• gu

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʦɔ/

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Pronoun

co

1. what

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	co
Genitive	czego
Dative	czemu
Accusative	co
Instrumental	czym
Locative	czym
Vocative	co

Related terms

• coś
• nic
• kto

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian con

Preposition

co

1. with, together

See also

• có