longo

See also: Longo and long o

Esperanto

Etymology

From longa (“long”) +‎ -o (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlonɡo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -onɡo
• Syllabification: lon‧go

Noun

longo (accusative singular longon, plural longoj, accusative plural longojn)

1. length

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese longo, from Latin longus, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈloŋɡʊ], (NW) [ˈloŋkʊ], (eastern) [ˈlɔŋɡʊ]
• Rhymes: -oŋɡʊ, -oŋɡo
• Hyphenation: lon‧go

Adjective

longo (feminine longa, masculine plural longos, feminine plural longas)

1. long

   Antonym: curto

   Cheguei a un campo longo onde había moitas portas con letreiros.

   I came to a long field where there were many gates with signs.

Derived terms

• ao longo de
• longamente

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “longo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “longo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “longo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “longo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “longo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin longus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔnɡo/, [ˈlɔŋ.ɡo]

Adjective

longo m sg (feminine longa)

1. long

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔn.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -ɔnɡo
• Hyphenation: lòn‧go

Adjective

longo (feminine longa, masculine plural longhi, feminine plural longhe)

1. (regional, Romanesco, obsolete) alternative form of lungo

Further reading

• longo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• logon

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɔŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔŋ.ɡo]

Adjective

longō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of longus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adverb

longo

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of longe

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese longo, from Latin longus, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.ɡu/

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.ɡʷ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: lon‧go

Adjective

longo (feminine longa, masculine plural longos, feminine plural longas)

1. long

   Synonym: comprido

Derived terms

• longamente
• longuinho (diminutive)
• longuíssimo (superlative)

Further reading

• “longo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “longo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlonɡo/ [ˈlõŋ.ɡo]
• Rhymes: -onɡo
• Syllabification: lon‧go

Etymology 1

From Latin longus. In light of the lack of diphthongization, either borrowed from Latin or through another Romance language; cf. the native doublet luengo.

Adjective

longo (feminine longa, masculine plural longos, feminine plural longas)

1. (uncommon) long

   Synonyms: largo, luengo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua lungu.

Adjective

longo (feminine longa, masculine plural longos, feminine plural longas)

1. (Ecuador, usually derogatory, of a youngling) native
2. (Ecuador, usually derogatory) young

Noun

longo m (plural longos)

1. (Ecuador, usually derogatory) teenager, youngling

Further reading

• “longo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪o.ŋo/

Noun

longo

1. younger sibling

   longo da at ― younger brother

   longo da papa ― younger sister

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics