co

See also Appendix:Variations of "co", and со

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Noun

co (plural cos)

1. (slang) company

Alternative forms

• co. , Co , Co.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Pronoun

co third-person singular, gender-neutral (reflexive coself)

1. (neologism, nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream:

     Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

   • 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:

     At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]

   • 2004 April 1, "Pieira dos Lobos" (username), "Fern's Story two", alt.magick.serious, Usenet:

     A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.

2. (neologism, nonstandard) them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

Hyponyms

• (as subject): he, she
• (as object): him, her

Derived terms

• cos
• coself

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto or *čь < Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

co

1. what

   Co se děje? — What's up?

   Co se stalo? — What happened?

Conjunction

co

1. that

   Od té doby, co jsme spolu... — Since we've been together... (lit.) Since the time that we've been together...

2. what

   Ví, co chce. — He knows what he wants.

Particle

1. (indeclinable) isn't it so, don't you think?

   To je pěkné, co? — That's nice, isn't it?

Declension

    declension of co

	singular	plural
nominative	co	[[]]
genitive	čeho	{{{9}}}
dative	čemu	{{{10}}}
accusative	co	{{{11}}}
vocative	[[]]	{{{12}}}
locative	čem	{{{13}}}
instrumental	čím	{{{14}}}

Derived terms

• cokoli
• cokoliv
• copak
• cosi
• což
• cože
• něco
• nic

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Pronoun

co

1. what

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Esperanto

Noun

co (plural co-oj, accusative singular co-on, accusative plural co-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter C/c.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/‎be, co/‎ce, ĉo/‎ĉa, do/‎de, e, fo/‎ef, go/‎ge, ĝo/‎ĝe, ho/‎ha, ĥo/‎ĥi, i, jo/‎je, ĵo/‎ĵi, ko/‎ka, lo/‎el, mo/‎om, no/‎en, o, po/‎pa, ro/‎ar, so/‎es, ŝo/‎eŝ, to/‎ta, u, ŭo/‎eŭ, vo/‎vi, zo/‎ze ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

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Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + masculine definite article o (“the”)

Contraction

co m (feminine coa, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

1. with the

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Jèrriais

Etymology 1

From Old French colp, coup, from Late Latin colpus, from Classical Latin colaphus (“blow with the fist; cuff”).

Noun

co m (plural cos)

1. blow

Alternative forms

• coup

Derived terms

Derived terms

co d'poing, coup d'tampon (“punch”) coup d'feu (“shot”) coup d'ôrage (“clap of thunder”)

coup d'sang (“thrombosis”) coup d'solé (“sunburn”) porter un coup (“to strike”)

Etymology 2

Noun

co m (plural cos)

1. cockerel

Derived terms

• co journieaux

Etymology 3

From Latin collum (“neck”).

Noun

co m (plural cos)

1. (anatomy) neck

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Lojban

Cmavo

co (rafsi col)

1. tanru inverter: written between the components of a compound words, it swaps the logical order

   zdani cukta

   book with the house-property

   zdani co cukta

   house with the book-property

   ti du lo bitmu poi selzbasu fi lo kitybli

   This is a wall which is made of bricks.

   ti bitmu co selzbasu fi lo kitybli

   This is a wall which is made of bricks.

Usage notes

• A tanru of the form "A co B" might not always be a mere substitute of "B (ke) A", because whereas a tanru of the form "B (ke) A" inherits its place structure from A, a tanru of the form "A co B" inherits its place structure from B.

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto < Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tsɔ]

Pronoun

co

1. what (interrogative)

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Old Irish

Adverb

co

1. (interrogative) how?

   Co·bbia mo ḟechtas – "How will my expedition be?"

Usage notes

Is followed by the dependent form of the verb, which is neither nasalized nor lenited.

Preposition

co

1. to, toward

Descendants

• chuig, chun, go
• gu

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto < Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /t͡s̪ɔ/

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Pronoun

co

1. what

Declension

    declension of co

	singular only
nominative	co
genitive	czego
dative	czemu
accusative	co
instrumental	czym
locative	czym
vocative	co

Related terms

• coś
• nic
• kto

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Spanish

Noun

co m (plural cos)

1. (Aragon, colloquial) dude, friend

Related terms

• compañero
• colega
• compa

Pronoun

co

1. Common misspelling of có.

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian con

Preposition

co

1. with, together

See also

• có