Ivo

See also: ivo, ivó, ívó, and -ivo

English

Etymology

Latinate form of a medieval name of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French origin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern French Yves.

Proper noun

Ivo

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1970 John Wain, A Winter in the Hills, Viking Press, page 45:

     It was so farcically alien to be called 'Roger' and 'Furnivall' in a place where everybody had names like Ivo and Gito and Madog.

Usage notes

• Used in medieval England, but rare today. Modern American bearers of this name may be of Slavic origin.

Related terms

• Ives
• Ivor
• Yvette
• Yvonne

Translations

male given name

• Esperanto: Ivo
• Estonian: Ivo (et)
• French: Yves (fr)
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• Italian: Ivo (it)
• Latvian: Ivo
• Portuguese: Ivo (pt)

Anagrams

• ovi-

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Czech

Etymology

Cognate to French Yves, and also a variant of Ivan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪvo]

Proper noun

1. a male given name.

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Estonian

Etymology

Short form of Ivar and, less often, of Ivan.

Proper noun

Ivo

1. a male given name

Related terms

• Aivar, Aivo, Ivar, Ivari

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Italian

Etymology

Cognate to English Ivo and French Yves.

Proper noun

Ivo m

1. a male given name.

Anagrams

• voi

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1962. Shortened from Ivars, also cognate to English Ivo, with ultimately the same (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  meaning "yew, bow (of yew)".

Proper noun

Ivo m

1. a male given name.

Related terms

• Ivars, Aivars
• Iveta

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

A hypocoristic form of Ivan.

Proper noun

Ívo m

1. a male given name