luo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luo"

Translingual

Etymology

From English Luo.

Symbol

luo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Luo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Luo terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From lui +‎ -o, from French louer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo/
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification: lu‧o

Noun

luo (uncountable, accusative luon)

1. rent

For quotations using this term, see Citations:luo.

Finnish

Etymology 1

luo- +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular), from Proto-Finnic *loo-, possibly from Proto-Uralic *luwe (“downstream”). Related to Ingrian looks (~ luokse), Karelian luoh (~ luo) and Veps lon (~ luona).

The postpositions with luo- are originally Eastern Finnish; their correspondents in Western Finnish (tykö and terms related to it) were more common in Old Literary Finnish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): luo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

Postposition

luo [with genitive]

1. (of movement) to, up to, to ('s place)

   Synonyms: luokse, tykö

   Antonyms: luota, tyköä

   Miehen luo tuli nainen. ― A woman came to the man.

   Menin Pekan luo. ― I went to Pekka's place.

Usage notes

luo cannot take a possessive suffix; luokse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

Inflection

Declension of luo noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative – – superessive – – genitive – – delative – – partitive luota – sublative – – accusative – – lative luo – inessive – – temporal – – elative – – causative – – illative – – multiplicative – – adessive – – distributive – – ablative – – temp. dist. – – allative – – prolative – – essive luona – situative – – translative luokse – oppositive – – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

The inflection mostly conforms to a now obsolete system of generic locative cases: lative, locative and separative. See Appendix:Finnish adverbial cases for more information.

Derived terms

• loinen
• luokse
• luola
• luona
• luottaa

Related terms

See the inflection table.

Further reading

• “luo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯/, [ˈluo̞̯]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): luo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

Verb

luo

1. third-person singular present indicative of luoda

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): luo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

Verb

luo

1. present active indicative connegative of luoda

   En luo mitään. ― I don't create anything.

2. second-person singular present imperative of luoda

   Luo se! ― Create it!

3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of luoda

   Älä luo sitä! ― Don't create it!

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.o]

Etymology 1

Back-formed from compounds (e.g. abluō), hence doublet of the original lavō.

Verb

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to wash
2. to cleanse, purge

   Synonyms: abstergeō, pūrgō, tergeō, putō, effingō

   Antonyms: maculō, inquinō, polluō, scelerō, contingō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of luō (third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	luō		luis		luit		luimus		luitis		luunt
	imperfect	luēbam		luēbās		luēbat		luēbāmus		luēbātis		luēbant
	future	luam		luēs		luet		luēmus		luētis		luent
	perfect	luī		luistī		luit		luimus		luistis		luērunt, luēre
	pluperfect	lueram		luerās		luerat		luerāmus		luerātis		luerant
	future perfect	luerō		lueris		luerit		luerimus		lueritis		luerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	luam		luās		luat		luāmus		luātis		luant
	imperfect	luerem		luerēs		lueret		luerēmus		luerētis		luerent
	perfect	luerim		luerīs		luerit		luerīmus		luerītis		luerint
	pluperfect	luissem		luissēs		luisset		luissēmus		luissētis		luissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		lue		—		—		luite		—
	future	—		luitō		luitō		—		luitōte		luuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		luere			—			luēns			—
perfect		luisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		luendī		luendō		luendum		luendō		—		—

Related terms

• luēs

Descendants

• → Spanish: luir (learned)

Further reading

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *luh₁-é-ti

Latin luo

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *luh₁-é-ti (“to cut off, separate, free”), from *lewh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek λύω (lúō), English loose.

Verb

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to let go, set free
2. to atone for

   Synonym: expiō

3. to pay (a debt)

   Synonyms: ērogō, persolvō, solvō, pendō, absolvō, dissolvō

4. to suffer (a punishment)
5. to satisfy (someone)

   Synonym: expleō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of luō (third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	luō		luis		luit		luimus		luitis		luunt
	imperfect	luēbam		luēbās		luēbat		luēbāmus		luēbātis		luēbant
	future	luam		luēs		luet		luēmus		luētis		luent
	perfect	luī		luistī		luit		luimus		luistis		luērunt, luēre
	pluperfect	lueram		luerās		luerat		luerāmus		luerātis		luerant
	future perfect	luerō		lueris		luerit		luerimus		lueritis		luerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	luam		luās		luat		luāmus		luātis		luant
	imperfect	luerem		luerēs		lueret		luerēmus		luerētis		luerent
	perfect	luerim		luerīs		luerit		luerīmus		luerītis		luerint
	pluperfect	luissem		luissēs		luisset		luissēmus		luissētis		luissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		lue		—		—		luite		—
	future	—		luitō		luitō		—		luitōte		luuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		luere			—			luēns			—
perfect		luisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		luendī		luendō		luendum		luendō		—		—

Derived terms

• reluō
• solvō

Further reading

• “luo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "luo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “luo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be punished for a thing, expiate it: poenam luere (alicuius rei) (Sull. 27. 76)
    
  • to atone for something by..: luere aliquid aliqua re (De Sen. 20)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681

Mandarin

Romanization

luo (luo⁵ / luo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囉 / 啰

Romanization

luo

1. nonstandard spelling of luō
2. nonstandard spelling of luó
3. nonstandard spelling of luǒ
4. nonstandard spelling of luò

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Portuguese

Noun

luo m (invariable)

1. Luo (member of a tribal group in eastern Africa)
2. Luo (a language spoken by the Luo people)