emo
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Contents
English
Etymology
Abbreviation of emocore.
Pronunciation
Noun
emo (countable and uncountable, plural emos)
- (uncountable, music, early 1990s) A particular style of hardcore punk rock
- (countable, early 1990s) An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
- (uncountable, music, late 1990s-current) Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
- (countable, late 1990s-current) An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
- (countable, 2000s) A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.
Translations
music
Adjective
emo (comparative more emo, superlative most emo)
- (often pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
- (informal, often pejorative) Depressed.
- 2008, Vanity Fair (issue 578)
- Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
- 2008, Vanity Fair (issue 578)
- Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
- 2007, James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
- The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo.
- 2012, Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
- Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.
- 2007, James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
Derived terms
Anagrams
Esperanto
Noun
emo (accusative singular emon, plural emoj, accusative plural emojn)
Synonyms
Related terms
Finnish
Etymology
From emä (“mother (archaic), womb”).
Noun
emo
- mother (animal female parent)
- (archaic) mother (woman with children)
- dam (female parent, generally regarding breeding of animals)
Declension
| Inflection of emo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | emo | emot | |
| genitive | emon | emojen | |
| partitive | emoa | emoja | |
| illative | emoon | emoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | emo | emot | |
| accusative | nom. | emo | emot |
| gen. | emon | ||
| genitive | emon | emojen | |
| partitive | emoa | emoja | |
| inessive | emossa | emoissa | |
| elative | emosta | emoista | |
| illative | emoon | emoihin | |
| adessive | emolla | emoilla | |
| ablative | emolta | emoilta | |
| allative | emolle | emoille | |
| essive | emona | emoina | |
| translative | emoksi | emoiksi | |
| instructive | — | emoin | |
| abessive | emotta | emoitta | |
| comitative | — | emoineen | |
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *emō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), (with excrescent p in ēmptum). Cognate with Lithuanian im̃ti, Old Church Slavonic имѫ (imǫ) and possibly Old Armenian իմանամ (imanam). Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to take or give ones due”), with its descendants English nim, Danish nemme, Dutch nemen, German nehmen, West Frisian nimme, Ancient Greek νέμω (némō).
Pronunciation
Verb
emō (present infinitive emere, perfect active ēmī, supine ēmptum); third conjugation
- (transitive) I buy, purchase.
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405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ioannes.4.8
- discipuli enim eius abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent
- so his disciples had gone away unto the city to buy food
- discipuli enim eius abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent
- Quantīs haec poma ēmisti?
- How much have you paid for these fruits?
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- (figuratively) I acquire, procure.
Inflection
Derived terms
External links
- emo in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press
References
- emo in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- emo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- emo in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- to buy dearly: magno or male emere
- after having completed one's service: emeritis stipendiis (Sall. Iug. 84. 2)
- to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
Swedish
Noun
emo c, n
Declension
Declension of emo 1
| Inflection of emo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | emo | emot | emon | emona |
| Genitive | emos | emots | emons | emonas |
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