lo

See also LO, -lo, ló, lö, lő, lø, łó, and lộ

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ləʊ/, X-SAMPA: /l@U/
• (US) IPA: /loʊ/, X-SAMPA: /loU/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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

Interjection

lo

1. (archaic) Look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).

Contraction

lo

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

Translations

look, see, behold

• Czech: hle (cs), ejhle (cs), ajta (cs)
• Finnish: katso (fi)
• French: voilà (fr)
• Greek: ιδού (el) (idou) 

  Ancient: ἰδού (idou)

• Hungarian: íme (hu)
• Icelandic: sjá (is)
• Latvian: lūk (lv), āre (lv), re (lv)
• Serbo-Croatian: evo (sh)
• Swedish: skåda (sv)

Related terms

• lo and behold

Etymology 2

Variant of low.

Adjective

lo (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of low.

   Can you turn the fan down to lo?

Derived terms

• lo-cal
• lo-tech

Related terms

• hi
• mid

Anagrams

• ol'

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Asturian

Article

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

1. (definite) the

Pronoun

lo

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

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Basque

Noun

lo

1. sleep

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Pronoun

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

1. him (direct object)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi2	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal4	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person  very formal1	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’3	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal1	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person. 2) Only as object of a preposition.			3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-. 4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

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Chickasaw

Pronoun

lo

1. I

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [loː]

Noun

lo f (plural loyow)

1. spoon

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Esperanto

Noun

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

1. The name of the Latin script letter L/l.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/‎be, co/‎ce, ĉo/‎ĉa, do/‎de, e, fo/‎ef, go/‎ge, ĝo/‎ĝe, ho/‎ha, ĥo/‎ĥi, i, jo/‎je, ĵo/‎ĵi, ko/‎ka, lo/‎el, mo/‎om, no/‎en, o, po/‎pa, ro/‎ar, so/‎es, ŝo/‎eŝ, to/‎ta, u, ŭo/‎eŭ, vo/‎vi, zo/‎ze ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

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Galician

Pronoun

lo m (accusative)

1. Mutated form of o. (him)

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• la
• no
• o

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Interlingua

Pronoun

lo

1. it, that (direct object)

   Tu lo audi? – Do you hear it?

Related terms

• illo

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin illum, by dropping il- and -m. Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o

Article

Italian Definite Articles
	singular	plural
masculine	il lo	i gli
feminine	la	le

lo m sg (plural gli)

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

   l’osso – the bone

   lo stato – the state

   lo zoo – the zoo

Pronoun

lo m sg (plural li)

1. him

   Lo conosci? – Do you know him?

2. this or that thing, it

   quando te lo diedi – when I gave it to you.

Synonyms

• (this): ciò

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Lojban

Cmavo

lo (article)

1. an article which converts a selbri into a sumti by "returning" an instance of the x₁ sumti of the following word, which would otherwise function as a selbri; unlike "le", this word does not add a connotation of definiteness (i.e., it would not translate to English as "the")

   ro lo mlatu cu nelci lo ladru

   All cats like milk.

Usage notes

• A sumti phrase begun with lo ends with the elidable terminator ku unless no ambiguity results (in which case the terminator is elided).
• The article lo behaves in a rather epsilon operator-like fashion. For example, let K be a predicate standing for the Lojban selbri klama, and let P be a predicate standing for the selbri prenu, then the Lojban sentence "lo prenu cu klama" could be expressed symbolically as $K(\epsilon x \, P(x))$, where $\epsilon x \, P(x)$ stands for "lo prenu".
• In a phrase such as "lo ci prenu" (where ci acts as an "inner quantifier"), the selbri which follows it may or may not "distribute" with respect to it, so that the "three people" may or may not be interpreted as acting as a concerted group, or so-called "mass". To be more precise, if the group acts concertedly, precede lo with lu'o, or equivalently, replace lo with loi. If the group does not act concertedly, but is instead "innocent" (the selbri "distributes" with respect to it), then use lo'i instead of loi.
  • A rule of thumb might be to avoid using inner quantifiers with lo altogether, just as in English it would wrong to say "*a three dogs". On the other hand, "a set of three dogs" would translate as "lo'i ci gerku", and "a group of three dogs (act as a team to) surround a man" would be "loi ci gerku cu sruri lo nanmu".
• In a phrase such as "ci lo prenu" (where ci acts as an "outer quantifier"), the selbri which follows it does "distribute" with respect to it, so that the selbri applies to each one of the three individuals, separately.

Related terms

• la
• le
• loi
• lo'i
• lo'e

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Mandarin

Romanization

lo (form of lo0 or lo5)

1. See 咭

Usage notes

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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lo n (definite singular loet; uncountable)

1. lint

Derived terms

• loe

Verb

lo

1. past tense of le

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• lou (Mistralian)

Article

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

1. the; masculine singular definite article

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Old Provençal

Article

lo (feminine la)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

Descendants

• Occitan: lo

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Portuguese

Pronoun

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 him.

   Contamo-lo (contamos)

   We told him.

   Fi-lo (fiz)

   I did it.

Coordinate terms

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

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Objective (direct object)		Objective (indirect object)	Reflexive	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me				mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te				ti		contigo		você
												o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	se	ele	ela	com ele	com ela
								si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Plural	First	nós		nos				nós		conosco		a gente
	Second	vós		vos				vós		convosco		vocês
												os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	se	eles	elas	com eles	com elas
								si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Impersonal							se	si		consigo

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad

Adjective

lo m f loa, m plural los, f plural loas)

1. (Sutsilvan) wide, broad

Synonyms

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin illum, accusative of ille. Pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille.

Article

lo

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

   lo pobre

   the poor one

Pronoun

lo

1. impersonal neuter pronoun; it, that

   lo es

   it is

See also

    Spanish pronouns

First person: singular: yo, mí, me plural: nosotros, nosotras, nos Second person: tuteo: tú, ti, te voseo: vos, te formal: usted, ustedes, le, les familiar plural: vosotros, vosotras, ustedes, os, les

Third person: masculine: él, ellos, lo, le, los, les feminine: ella, ellas, la, le, las, les neuter: ello, lo, le Demonstrative: este, esta, esto, estos, estas ese, esa, eso, esos, esas aquel, aquella, aquello, aquellos, aquellas

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

lo c

1. a lynx

Declension

Declension of lo

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lo	lon	loar	loarna
genitive	los	lons	loars	loarnas

Related terms

• lodjur
• lounge

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Vietnamese

Verb

lo

1. to bother, to worry, to attend to

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Xhosa

Pronunciation

• /lɔ/

Adjective

lo

1. this, this one

Related terms

• lowo
• lowaya

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Zulu

Pronoun

-lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

See also

Class 5 concords^[edit]

Full noun prefix:	ili-1, i-
Basic noun prefix:	li-
Subject concord:	li-
Object concord:	-li-
Possessive concord:	la-
Adjective concord:	eli-
Relative concord:	eli-
Pronoun:	lona, -lo
1 Archaic.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.

Class 11 concords^[edit]

Full noun prefix:	ulu-1, u-
Basic noun prefix:	lu-
Subject concord:	lu-
Object concord:	-lu-
Possessive concord:	lwa-
Adjective concord:	olu-
Relative concord:	olu-
Pronoun:	lona, -lo
1 Archaic.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.

Determiner

lo

1. this (class 1, class 3)

See also

Class 1 concords^[edit]

Full noun prefix:	umu-2, um-, u-3
Basic noun prefix:	mu-2, m-, -3
Subject concord:	u-, -ka-
Object concord:	-mu-2, -m-
Possessive concord:	wa-
Adjective concord:	omu-1, om-
Relative concord:	o-
Pronoun:	yena, -ye, -khe1
1 With possessive concords. 2 With single-syllable stems. 3 With class 1a nouns.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.

Class 3 concords^[edit]

Full noun prefix:	umu-1, um-
Basic noun prefix:	mu-1, m-
Subject concord:	u-, -wu-
Object concord:	-wu-
Possessive concord:	wa-
Adjective concord:	omu-1, om-
Relative concord:	o-
Pronoun:	wona, -wo
1 With single-syllable nouns.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.