imo

See also: IMO, Imo, and -imo

English

Prepositional phrase

imo

1. Alternative form of IMO.

Anagrams

• IOM, MOI, Mio, mo'i, moi, omi

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Aklanon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *imu.

Pronoun

imo

1. you

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Cebuano

Alternative forms

• imoha

Pronoun

imo

1. you (2nd person singular preposed ergative form)
2. (in the singular) yours
3. (slang, humorous) one's genitalia

See also

Cebuano personal pronouns

Person	Number	Direct		Indirect (postposed)		Indirect (preposed)		Oblique
Length		Full	Short*	Full	Short**	Base	Suffixed -a	Full	Short
First	singular	akó	ko	nakò***	ko***	akò	akoa	kanakò	nakò
	plural inclusive	kitá	ta	natò	ta	atò	atoa	kanatò	natò
	plural exclusive	kamí	mi	namò		amò	amoa	kanamò	namò
Second	singular	ikáw	ka	nimo	mo	imo	imoha	kanimo	nimo
	plural	kamó	mo	ninyo		inyo	inyoha	kaninyo	ninyo
Third	singular	siyá		niya		iya	iyaha	kaniya	niya
	plural	silá		nila		ila	ilaha	kanila	nila
*Forms under this column are placed after the verb or predicate they modify, and never used at the start of sentences **Forms under this column are literary and rarely used colloquially. ***Ta is used over nako or ko where the object is a second-person singular pronoun.

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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 *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” (Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (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. (figuratively, of people) of a low social status
   • 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, figuratively, of things) inappropriate, vulgar, uncouth

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 (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-

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Japanese

Romanization

imo

1. Rōmaji transcription of いも

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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

(deprecated template usage) īmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īmus

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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Regularised form.

Verb

imo

1. (proscribed, Caipira) Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Umbundu

Noun

imo (i-ova class, plural ovamo)

1. belly