oleo

See also: óleo, Óleo, and oleo-

English

Etymology 1

From oleum (“olive oil”).

Noun

oleo (usually uncountable, plural oleos)

1. (US) The various fats and oils that go into the making of margarine.

Etymology 2

Clipping of oleomargarine.

Noun

oleo (usually uncountable, plural oleos)

1. (US, dated) margarine

See also

• oleo-
• oleo oil

Anagrams

• Looe

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”)

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [oˈleo]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: o‧le‧o

Noun

oleo (accusative singular oleon, plural oleoj, accusative plural oleojn)

1. oil

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.oː/, [ˈɔɫ̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.o/, [ˈɔːleo]

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage)

From the older olō (“smell”), from Proto-Italic *odō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell”). See also odor.

Verb

oleō (present infinitive olēre, perfect active oluī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. I smell; I emit an odor, especially a bad odor.
2. I am given away by smell; I smell of.
3. I am observed, betrayed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of oleō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	oleō	olēs	olet	olēmus	olētis	olent
	imperfect	olēbam	olēbās	olēbat	olēbāmus	olēbātis	olēbant
	future	olēbō	olēbis	olēbit	olēbimus	olēbitis	olēbunt
	perfect	oluī	oluistī	oluit	oluimus	oluistis	oluērunt, oluēre
	pluperfect	olueram	oluerās	oluerat	oluerāmus	oluerātis	oluerant
	future perfect	oluerō	olueris	oluerit	oluerimus	olueritis	oluerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	oleam	oleās	oleat	oleāmus	oleātis	oleant
	imperfect	olērem	olērēs	olēret	olērēmus	olērētis	olērent
	perfect	oluerim	oluerīs	oluerit	oluerīmus	oluerītis	oluerint
	pluperfect	oluissem	oluissēs	oluisset	oluissēmus	oluissētis	oluissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	olē	—	—	olēte	—
	future	—	olētō	olētō	—	olētōte	olentō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		olēre	oluisse	—	—	—	—
participles		olēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		olendī	olendō	olendum	olendō	—	—

Synonyms

• (smell, emit an odor): fragrō

Derived terms

• adoleō
• oboleō
• olentia
• olentica
• olenticētum
• olidus
• olēns
• olētum
• peroleō
• praeoleō
• redoleō
• suboleō

 

Related terms

• olētō

Descendants

• Asturian: goler
• English: olid (Borrowing from Latin "olidus"), olent (Borrowing from Latin "olens")
• Extremaduran: golel
• Galician: oler
• Italian: olire
• Navarro-Aragonese: oler, holer, goler
• Leonese: golere, ulire
• Old French: oloir
• Old Spanish: goler
• Papiamentu: hole
• Spanish: oler

See also

• odōrō
• olfaciō

References

• “oleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

Inflected form of oleum (“olive oil”).

Noun

(deprecated template usage) oleō

1. dative singular of oleum
2. ablative singular of oleum

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Spanish

Verb

oleo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of olear.