-o
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /əʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /oʊ/
Etymology 1Edit
Perhaps from a special use of the interjection O, oh; and/or perhaps from o (“one”), from Middle English o, oo, variant of a, on, oon, an (“one”). More at one.
SuffixEdit
- A colloquializing suffix.
- A type of person (colloquial).
Usage notesEdit
-o generally does not change the meaning of the word, but only makes it more colloquial, often with elision (like clipping, but with a suffix), and is primarily applied to nouns, as in kiddo (“kid”) or preso (“presentation”). Common words that are shortened with the -o include journalist/journo, repository/repo, distribution/distro. Can change the way a word is written, like ugly/uggo and dog/doggo. It is sometimes applied to adjectives, such as agro or rando. It may also be applied to certain given names or surnames, often with elision and sometimes from an already shortened form, to create a nickname form — e.g., Jacko from Jack, Davo from Dave, Smitho from Smith.
Less commonly, it results in a change in meaning, primarily meaning “a person with a characteristic”, and is generally applied to adjectives, resulting in a noun, as is weirdo (“weird person”). More rarely it can also be applied to a noun, as in wino (“wine-drinking alcoholic”).
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From many Spanish or Italian words that end in o. This ending in such Spanish or Italian words generally derives from -um, the accusative singular inflectional ending for masculine and neuter nouns in Latin.
SuffixEdit
-o
- (humorous) Converts certain words to faux Italian or Spanish. Can be used with Spanish el for expressions such as el stinko.
- no problemo
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Back-formation from typo.
SuffixEdit
-o (plural -os)
- Added to verb stems to create a noun describing an error relating to the action described by the verb.
Derived termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
AfarEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ó
ReferencesEdit
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
AlbanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-ó
- Creates a second-person singular active imperative verb form from a non-verb.
- • adverb/preposition: afër (“close, nearby”) (drop of ë) + -o → afro (“bring closer!”)
- • adverb: baraz (“equal”) + -o → barazo (“equalize!”)
- • adverb/preposition: krahas (“arm in arm, side by side”) + -o → krahaso (“compare!”)
- • adjective/adverb: pastër (“clean”) (drop of ë) + -o → pastro (“cleanse!”)
- • noun: zhurmë (drop of ë) + -o → zhurmo (“make a noise, scream!”)
Etymology 2Edit
ParticleEdit
-o
- Alternative form of o
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
- From the masculine singular of the Romance languages, such as Italian (amico); perhaps also the neuter singular of Russian (окно (okno))
- Perhaps from the above (Italian quello, Russian то (to))
SuffixEdit
-o
- Nominal suffix. Most Esperanto nouns end in -o. (A few nouns end in -aŭ, and with some writers some feminine names end in -a.)
- -thing. (correlative object ending.)
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Conflated:
- from Proto-Finnic *-o (forms action/result nouns), from Proto-Uralic *-w (as applied to stems ending in -a).
- from Proto-Finnic *-oi (variant/diminutive), from Proto-Uralic *-j (diminutive ending); the -o- is a re-extraction from the suffix being applied to stems ending in -a which was labialized by -j.
SuffixEdit
-o (front vowel harmony variant -ö)
- Forms result or action nouns from verbs.
- Forms variants or diminutives from a few nominal roots.
Usage notesEdit
- Used deverbally especially with those verbs whose citation form ends with -aa or -ää. In stems with e or i, the suffix has its back vowel form, -o.
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of -o (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -o | -ot | |
| genitive | -on | -ojen | |
| partitive | -oa | -oja | |
| illative | -oon | -oihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -o | -ot | |
| accusative | nom. | -o | -ot |
| gen. | -on | ||
| genitive | -on | -ojen | |
| partitive | -oa | -oja | |
| inessive | -ossa | -oissa | |
| elative | -osta | -oista | |
| illative | -oon | -oihin | |
| adessive | -olla | -oilla | |
| ablative | -olta | -oilta | |
| allative | -olle | -oille | |
| essive | -ona | -oina | |
| translative | -oksi | -oiksi | |
| instructive | — | -oin | |
| abessive | -otta | -oitta | |
| comitative | — | -oineen | |
| Possessive forms of -o (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | -oni | -omme |
| 2nd person | -osi | -onne |
| 3rd person | -onsa | |
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
- added to a noun or an adjective after apocope, to create a familiar synonym
Derived termsEdit
GaroEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
SuffixEdit
-o
- (inflectional suffix) forms the locative case
SynonymsEdit
- -no (“forms locative”)
See alsoEdit
GothicEdit
RomanizationEdit
-o
- Romanization of -𐍉
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Esperanto -o, from Romance languages.
SuffixEdit
-o
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
SuffixEdit
-o (pl. -i, feminine sg. -a, feminine pl. -e)
- Used with a stem to form a masculine singular noun
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
-o
- Used with a stem to form the first-person singular present of regular are and ere verbs and those -ire verbs that do not take -isc-
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂- (with nominative ō made common to all cases).
SuffixEdit
-ō m (genitive -ōnis); third declension
- forms masculine agent nouns, positive and especially negative nicknames and other designations, especially in colloquial language.
- also forms names, especially cognomina.
- aquila (“eagle”) → Aquilō (“the North wind”)
- incubāre (“to lie on top”) → Incubō (“a spirit that watches over buried treasures”)
- cūria (“curia”) → Cūriō
- cicer (“chickpea”) → Cicerō
- vārus (“bow-legged”) → Varrō
- catus (“clever, shrewd”) → Catō
- conger (“sea-eel”) → Congriō (“name of a cook in Plautus”)
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ō | -ōnēs |
| Genitive | -ōnis | -ōnum |
| Dative | -ōnī | -ōnibus |
| Accusative | -ōnem | -ōnēs |
| Ablative | -ōne | -ōnibus |
| Vocative | -ō | -ōnēs |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “-ō¹” on page 1,210/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Italic *-ōd, an ablative suffix, derived from Proto-Indo-European *-éad.
SuffixEdit
-ō (comparative -ius, superlative -issimō)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “-ō²” on page 1,210/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 3Edit
From Proto-Italic *-āō or *-aēō, from the following sources:
- Denominative verbs with *-eh₂yéti (e.g. dōnō, pugnō, cūrō)
- Verbs from roots in *-h₁-. (e.g. flō)
- Verbs from roots in *-h₂-. (e.g. for, nō, hiō, domō, iuvō)
- Verbs from roots in *-h₃-. (e.g. dō, lavō, arō)
- By sound laws acting on *-h₂ + *-éh₁yeti. (singular case of stō)
Alternative formsEdit
SuffixEdit
-ō (present infinitive -āre, perfect active -āvī, supine -ātum); first conjugation
- suffixed to nouns or adjectives — originally a-stem nouns, but later nouns with other stems — forms regular first-conjugation verbs
- suffixed to third-conjugation verbs in composition, forms regular first-conjugation verbs
- com- + pellō (pres. act. inf.: pellere) + -ō → compellō (pres. act. inf.: compellāre)
- prō- + flīgō (pres. act. inf.: flīgere) + -ō → prōflīgō (pres. act. inf.: prōflīgāre)
ConjugationEdit
| Conjugation of -ō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | -ō | -ās | -at | -āmus | -ātis | -ant |
| imperfect | -ābam | -ābās | -ābat | -ābāmus | -ābātis | -ābant | |
| future | -ābō | -ābis | -ābit | -ābimus | -ābitis | -ābunt | |
| perfect | -āvī | -āvistī | -āvit | -āvimus | -āvistis | -āvērunt, -āvēre | |
| pluperfect | -āveram | -āverās | -āverat | -āverāmus | -āverātis | -āverant | |
| future perfect | -āverō | -āveris | -āverit | -āverimus | -āveritis | -āverint | |
| passive | present | -or | -āris, -āre | -ātur | -āmur | -āminī | -antur |
| imperfect | -ābar | -ābāris, -ābāre | -ābātur | -ābāmur | -ābāminī | -ābantur | |
| future | -ābor | -āberis, -ābere | -ābitur | -ābimur | -ābiminī | -ābuntur | |
| perfect | -ātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | -ātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | -ātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | -em | -ēs | -et | -ēmus | -ētis | -ent |
| imperfect | -ārem | -ārēs | -āret | -ārēmus | -ārētis | -ārent | |
| perfect | -āverim | -āverīs | -āverit | -āverīmus | -āverītis | -āverint | |
| pluperfect | -āvissem | -āvissēs | -āvisset | -āvissēmus | -āvissētis | -āvissent | |
| passive | present | -er | -ēris, -ēre | -ētur | -ēmur | -ēminī | -entur |
| imperfect | -ārer | -ārēris, -ārēre | -ārētur | -ārēmur | -ārēminī | -ārentur | |
| perfect | -ātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | -ātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | -ā | — | — | -āte | — |
| future | — | -ātō | -ātō | — | -ātōte | -antō | |
| passive | present | — | -āre | — | — | -āminī | — |
| future | — | -ātor | -ātor | — | — | -antor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | -āre | -āvisse | -ātūrum esse | -ārī | -ātum esse | -ātum īrī | |
| participles | -āns | — | -ātūrus | — | -ātus | -andus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| -andī | -andō | -andum | -andō | -ātum | -ātū | ||
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- “-ō³” on page 1,210/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 4Edit
Regularly declined forms of -us.
SuffixEdit
-ō
- dative masculine singular of -us
- dative neuter singular of -us
- ablative masculine singular of -us
- ablative neuter singular of -us
See alsoEdit
LithuanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ā; compare Latvian -a, Proto-Slavic *-a (“id”). From the Proto-Indo-European thematic masculine ablative ending *-ōd, with regular Balto-Slavic loss of final d. Compare Sanskrit -आत् (-āt), Latin -ō and Ancient Greek ὄπ-ω (óp-ō, “whence”). In Balto-Slavic, the genitive merged with the ablative. The original genitive was retained, however, in West Baltic; compare Old Prussian -as, presumably from Proto-Indo-European *-os; compare Hittite 𒀸 (-as).
SuffixEdit
-õ
- Used to form genitive singulars of masculine a-stem nouns.
- Used to form genitive singulars of masculine a-stem adjectives.
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
-o
- Used to form third person present tense forms in third declension verbs.
- Used to form third person past tense forms in first declension verbs.
Etymology 3Edit
SuffixEdit
-õ
SynonymsEdit
Lower SorbianEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
- -ly (used to turn an adjective into an adverb of manner)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
- Used to make plural indefinite and definite forms for some neuter nouns
- (non-standard since 1917) Used to make singular definite form for some weak feminine nouns
- (archaic)(nonstandard) Used to mark plural form for strong verbs in past tense
Old DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *-ô.
SuffixEdit
-o
- Forms adverbs from adjectives.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle Dutch: -e
Old High GermanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *-ô.
SuffixEdit
-o
- Forms adverbs from adjectives.
DescendantsEdit
- Middle High German: -e
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Germanic *-ô. Cognate to Old English -a, in ǣta (“eater”), Gothic -𐌰 (-a), in 𐌽𐌿𐍄𐌰 (nuta, “fisher”). In some cases, the root appears in the zero-grade as in boto (from biotan).
SuffixEdit
-o m
- used to form masculine agents from verbs
DeclensionEdit
Most nouns with this suffix follow the n-declension, like hano (“cock”), namo (“name”), gomo (“man”).
DescendantsEdit
In Middle High German, the suffix is replaced by -er (whence German -er), as in Middle High German gëber instead of Old High German gëbo. Only a few German words still have a final -e that results from Old High German -o.
Old SaxonEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *-ô.
SuffixEdit
-o
- Forms adverbs from adjectives.
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Germanic *-ô. Cognate to Old English -a, in ǣta (“eater”), Gothic -𐌰 (-a), in 𐌽𐌿𐍄𐌰 (nuta, “fisher”).
SuffixEdit
-o m
- used to form masculine agents from verbs and nouns
DescendantsEdit
- Middle Low German: -e
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Portuguese -o, from Latin -um.
SuffixEdit
-o
- forms masculine singular nouns and adjectives
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Portuguese -o, from Latin -ō.
SuffixEdit
-o
- forms the first-person singular present indicative of verbs
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
- suffix indicating the first-person singular present indicative of verbs
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
- (colloquial) Suffix that gives a familiar, and to some extent a diminutive nuance, when combined with an adjective to create a noun referring to a person with a certain property
VolapükEdit
SuffixEdit
-o
Derived termsEdit
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
SuffixEdit
-o
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
-o
- (literary) verb suffix for the third-person singular present subjunctive
Etymology 3Edit
From Middle Welsh -aw, from Proto-Brythonic *-ọβ̃.
SuffixEdit
-o
Usage notesEdit
This suffix is mostly used for verbs where the stem ends in the consonant i (though for some such verbs, such as cynnig, the verbnoun is given by dropping the i from the stem) or the vowel in the last syllable is i, u, eu, or wy.[1]
Related termsEdit
- -io (Forms verbnouns from verbs and other parts of speech)