lo

§PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊ/

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• Homophones: low, Lowe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

§Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā. Conflated in Middle English by lo!, a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.

§InterjectionEdit

lo

1. (archaic) look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).

§ContractionEdit

lo

1. (colloquial) hello ('lo; see hallo)

§TranslationsEdit

§Related termsEdit

• lo and behold

§Etymology 2Edit

Variant of low.

§AdjectiveEdit

lo (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of low.

   Can you turn the fan down to lo?

§Derived termsEdit

• lo-cal
• lo-tech

§Related termsEdit

• hi
• mid

§AnagramsEdit

• ol'

§ArticleEdit

lo n sg (masculine el, feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

§PronounEdit

lo

1. it (third-person singular neuter direct pronoun)

§NounEdit

lo

1. sleep

§PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -u

§PronounEdit

lo (enclitic, contracted 'l, proclitic el, contracted proclitic l')

1. him (direct object)

§DeclensionEdit

§PronounEdit

lo

1. I

§EtymologyEdit

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§PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [loː]

§NounEdit

lo f (plural loyow)

1. spoon

§NounEdit

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

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

§See alsoEdit

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

§Etymology 1Edit

§PronounEdit

lo m sg (feminine singular la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. Mutated form of o. (the)

§Usage notesEdit

The l- forms of article are compulsorily used after the preposition por and adverb u. It is optional when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, after unstressed pronouns nos, vos and lles (when they are enclitc) of ambos, entrambos, todos, tras and copulative conjunction (e mais and tonic pronouns vós and nós followed by a numerical precision.

§Related termsEdit

• la
• o

§Etymology 2Edit

§PronounEdit

lo m (accusative)

1. Mutated form of o. (him)

§Usage notesEdit

The l- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -r or -s, and is suffixed to the preceding word

§Related termsEdit

• la
• no
• o

§PronounEdit

lo

1. it (referring to a previous sentence or phrase, i.e. a fact rather than an object)

§PronounEdit

lo

1. it, that (direct object)

   Tu lo audi? – Do you hear it?

§Related termsEdit

• illo

§EtymologyEdit

From Latin illum, by dropping il- and -m. Latin illum is the accusative singular of ille.^[1]

§PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -o

§ArticleEdit

lo m sg (plural gli)

1. (the form of il that is used before the so-called impure consonants, that is, s+consonant, gn, pn, ps, x or z; before a vowel it becomes l’) the

   l’osso ― the bone

   lo stato ― the state

   lo zoo ― the zoo

§PronounEdit

lo m sg (plural li)

1. him

   Lo conosci? ― Do you know him?

2. this or that thing, it

   quando te lo diedi ― when I gave it to you

§SynonymsEdit

• (this): ciò

§ReferencesEdit

1. ^ 2002, Giuseppe Patota, Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page p. 123:

§CmavoEdit

lo (article)

1. an article which converts a selbri into a sumti by "returning" an instance of the x₁ sumti of the following word, which would otherwise function as a selbri; unlike "le", this word does not add a connotation of definiteness (i.e., it would not translate to English as "the")

   ro lo mlatu cu nelci lo ladru

   All cats like milk.

§Usage notesEdit

• A sumti phrase begun with lo ends with the elidable terminator ku unless no ambiguity results (in which case the terminator is elided).
• The article lo behaves in a rather epsilon operator-like fashion. For example, let K be a predicate standing for the Lojban selbri klama, and let P be a predicate standing for the selbri prenu, then the Lojban sentence "lo prenu cu klama" ^[1] could be expressed symbolically as , where stands for "lo prenu".
• In a phrase such as "lo ci prenu" (where ci acts as an "inner quantifier"), the selbri which follows it may or may not "distribute" with respect to it, so that the "three people" may or may not be interpreted as acting as a concerted group, or so-called "mass". To be more precise, if the group acts concertedly, precede lo with lu'o, or equivalently, replace lo with loi. If the group does not act concertedly, but is instead "innocent" (the selbri "distributes" with respect to it), then use lo'i instead of loi.^[2]
  • A rule of thumb might be to avoid using inner quantifiers with lo altogether, just as in English it would wrong to say "*a three dogs".^[3] On the other hand, "a set of three dogs" would translate as "lo'i ci gerku", and "a group of three dogs (act as a team to) surround a man" would be "loi ci gerku cu sruri lo nanmu".
• In a phrase such as "ci lo prenu" (where ci acts as an "outer quantifier"), the selbri which follows it does "distribute" with respect to it, so that the selbri applies to each one of the three individuals, separately.^[2]

§Related termsEdit

• la
• le
• loi
• lo'i
• lo'e

§ReferencesEdit

1. ^ Lojban for Beginners, Chapter 4, §2
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} How to use xorlo
3. ^ LRG §6.7, Example 7.6

§RomanizationEdit

lo (Zhuyin ㄌㄛ˙)

1. Pinyin transliteration of 咭

§Usage notesEdit

• Almost all syllables transliterated from Chinese speech contain one of four diacritics indicating tone. This is one of the few syllables in the Chinese language that is transcribed only in a toneless form.
• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

§PronounEdit

lo

1. alternative form of 'o

§NounEdit

lo n (definite singular loet; uncountable)

1. lint

§Derived termsEdit

• loe

§VerbEdit

lo

1. past tense of le

§PronounEdit

lo (genitive lon, plural los)

1. he; him

§Related termsEdit

• la
• le

§Alternative formsEdit

• lou (Mistralian)

§ArticleEdit

lo (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural las)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

§ArticleEdit

lo (feminine la)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

§DescendantsEdit

• Occitan: lo

§PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlu/
• Hyphenation: lo

§PronounEdit

lo

1. alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun.) Used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m). The consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary.

   Contá-lo (contar)

   To tell him.

   Contamo-lo (contamos)

   We told him.

   Fi-lo (fiz)

   I did it.

§Coordinate termsEdit

• no (following a nasal vowel), o (following an oral vowel)

§See alsoEdit

§Alternative formsEdit

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad

§AdjectiveEdit

lo m (feminine loa, masculine plural los, feminine plural loas)

1. (Sutsilvan) wide, broad

§SynonymsEdit

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) lartg
• (Puter, Vallader) larg

§EtymologyEdit

From Latin illum, accusative of ille. Pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille.

§ArticleEdit

lo

1. neuter definite article used to make abstract nouns from adjectives; the

   lo pobre

   the poor

§PronounEdit

lo

1. Accusative of él, ello, and usted (when referring to a man); him, it, you (formal)
2. impersonal neuter pronoun; it, that

   lo es

   it is

§See alsoEdit

§PronunciationEdit

• audio

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§NounEdit

lo c

1. a lynx

§DeclensionEdit

§Related termsEdit

• lodjur
• lounge

§PronunciationEdit

• (Hà Nội) IPA ^(key): /l̪ɔ˧˧/
• (Huế) IPA ^(key): /lɔ˧˧/
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA ^(key): /l̻ʲɔ˧˥/

§VerbEdit

lo

1. to bother, to worry, to attend to

§PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /lɔ/

§AdjectiveEdit

lo

1. this, this one

§Related termsEdit

• lowo
• lowaya

§PronounEdit

-lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

§See alsoEdit

§DeterminerEdit

lo

1. this (class 1, class 3)

§See alsoEdit