lo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lo"

Contents

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: low, Lowe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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

Interjection

lo

1. (archaic) look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Caliban: Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

   • 1925, Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translated by Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor:

     Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue. As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.

Related terms

• lo and behold

Translations

look, see, behold

• Bengali: হেরো (hero)
• Czech: hle, ejhle (cs), ajta
• Dutch: aanschouw (nl)
• Esperanto: jen (eo)
• Finnish: katso (fi)
• French: voici (fr), voilà (fr)
• German: sieh (de), guck (de)
• Greek: ιδού (el) (idoú)

  Ancient: ἰδού (idoú)

• Hungarian: íme (hu)
• Icelandic: sjá (is)
• Ido: yen (io)

• Italian: ecco (it)
• Japanese: ほら (hora)
• Latin: ecce
• Latvian: lūk, āre, re (lv)
• Polish: oto (pl), ot (pl)
• Portuguese: ó (pt)
• Russian: вот (ru) (vot), смотри́ (ru) (smotrí), глянь (ru) (gljanʹ), гляди́ (ru) (gljadí)
• Serbo-Croatian: evo (sh)
• Spanish: ve (es), ved (es), vea (es), veamos (es), vean (es)
• Swedish: skåda (sv), si (sv)
• Turkish: işte (tr)

Etymology 2

Variant of low.

Adjective

lo (not comparable)

1. Informal spelling of low.

Derived terms

• lo-cal
• lo-tech

Related terms

• hi
• mid

Etymology 3

Contraction

lo

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

Anagrams

• -ol, OL, Ol., ol, ol'

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illud, neuter of ille.

Article

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

1. (definite) the

Pronoun

lo

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

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Basque

Noun

lo

1. sleep

Derived terms

• lo egin 'sleep' (verb)
• logela 'bedroom'

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille.

Pronoun

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

1. him (direct object)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural. 2) Behaves grammatically as third person.			3) Only as object of a preposition. 4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Etymology 2

From Latin illum, from ille.

Article

lo m (feminine la, masculine plural los, feminine plural les)

1. (archaic or dialectal) the (definite article)

   Synonym: el (standard)

Further reading

• “lo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lo” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “lo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Chickasaw

Pronoun

lo

1. I

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Cornish

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [loː]

Noun

lo f (plural loyow)

1. spoon

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Esperanto

Noun

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

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

See also

• (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

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Galician

Etymology 1

See o. Compare Portuguese lo.

Pronoun

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

1. Alternative form of o (“the”, masculine singular)

Usage notes

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 terms

• la
• o

Etymology 2

Pronoun

lo m (accusative)

1. Alternative form of o (“him”)

Usage notes

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 terms

• la
• no
• o

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Ido

Etymology

Back-formation from co (“this”), to (“that”), based on la (“the”), ol (“it”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/, /lɔ/

Pronoun

lo

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

   Il esas mortinta de tri monati, e vu ne savas lo!

   He's been dead for three months, and you didn't know it (that he's been dead for three months)!

References

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Interlingua

Pronoun

lo

1. it, that (direct object)

   Tu lo audi? – Do you hear it?

Related terms

• illo

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, illud, the accusative singular of ille, by dropping il- and -m.

Article

Italian Definite Articles
	singular	plural
masculine	il lo/l'	i gli
feminine	la/l'	le

lo m sg (plural gli)

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

   l’osso ― the bone

   lo stato ― the state

   lo zio ― the uncle

Etymology 2

From Latin illum, the accusative singular of ille.

Alternative forms

• -lo (enclitic)

Pronoun

lo m sg (plural li, female la)

1. (accusative) him

   Lo conosci? ― Do you know him?

2. (accusative) it, this or that thing

   Synonym: ciò

   Quando te lo diedi. ― When I gave it to you.

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Locative	Genitive	Disjunctive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			—		me
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti					te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	lui, sé
		f 1	lei, Lei1		la, l', La1, -la	le3, Le1, -le			lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			—		noi
	second	—1	voi, Voi1	vi, v', -vi, Vi1					voi, Voi1
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, -li	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	loro, Loro1, sé
		f 1			le, -le
1	The feminine gender third person forms and second plural person forms are also used as formal terms of address referring to second singular person subjects, sometimes capitalised as Lei, Vi, Loro etc. to distinguish them.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard).

References

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Lamboya

Verb

lo

1. to go

   Synonyms: kako, attu

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “lo”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 60

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loː/

Adverb

lo

1. Alternative form of elo

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Mandarin

Romanization

lo (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄛ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 咯

Usage notes

• 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.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lō, from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz.

Noun

lô f, n

1. clearing in a forest

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• lôon

Descendants

• Dutch: lo (obsolete outside toponyms)

Further reading

• “loo”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “loo”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Neapolitan

Pronoun

lo

1. Alternative form of 'o

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lo n (definite singular loet, uncountable)

1. lint

Derived terms

• loe

Verb

lo

1. past tense of le

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ló, lóa.

Noun

lo f (definite singular loa, indefinite plural loer, definite plural loene)

1. any of various birds of the family Charadriidae, the plovers and dotterels

Derived terms

• heilo

Etymology 2

Verb

lo

1. past tense of le

References

• “lo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Pronoun

lo (genitive lon, plural los)

1. he; him

Related terms

• la
• le

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• lou (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum.

Article

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

1. the; masculine singular definite article

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old Occitan lo.

Article

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular oblique definite article

Pronoun

lo

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of le; masculine singular object pronoun

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu, from Latin illum; compare Old French lo.

Article

lo (feminine la)

1. the; masculine singular definite article

Descendants

• Occitan: lo

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese logo ("soon") and Spanish luego ("soon, later").

Verb

lo

Indicates the future tense of a verb.

1. shall
2. will

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Portuguese

Etymology

See o.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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 it.

   Contamo-lo (contamos) ― We told it.

   Fi-lo (fiz) ― I did it.

Coordinate terms

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

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Accusative (direct object)		Dative (indirect object)	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me			mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te			ti		contigo		você
											o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	ele	ela	com ele	com ela	o mesmo	a mesma
				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Plural	First	nós		nos			nós		connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil)		a gente
	Second	vós		vos			vós		convosco		vocês
											os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	eles	elas	com eles	com elas	os mesmos	as mesmas
				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Indefinite				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lad

Etymology

From Latin lātus.

Adjective

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

1. (Sutsilvan) wide, broad

Synonyms

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

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Silesian

Preposition

lo

1. by, at, on
2. to
3. for

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Spanish

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu. Masculine pronoun from Latin illum, singular masculine accusative of ille. Neuter article and pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille. Compare Portuguese o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Article

lo

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

   lo pobre

   the poorness (about)

   the poor (thing about)

   that (which is) poor (about)

Pronoun

lo

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

   lo veo

   I see it

2. impersonal neuter pronoun; it, that

   lo es

   so it is

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masculine2		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		feminine		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal3		usted	le, se4	lo/la5	usted
	plural	familiar6	masculine2	vosotros	os		vosotros
			feminine	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general3		ustedes	les, se4	los/las5	ustedes
third person	singular	masculine2		él	le, se4	lo	él
		feminine		ella		la	ella
		neuter		ello7		lo/la5	ello
	plural	masculine2		ellos	les, se4	los	ellos
		feminine		ellas		las	ellas
	reflexive			—	se		sí1

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances

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Swahili

Interjection

lo

1. oh!

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luː/

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Noun

lo c

1. a lynx

Declension

Declension of lo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	lo	lon	loar	loarna
Genitive	los	lons	loars	loarnas

Related terms

• lodjur
• lounge

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English law.

Noun

lo

1. law

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 慮 (“be concerned,worry about”; SV: lự).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lɔ˧˧]

Verb

lo (𢗼, 𢥈)

1. to bother, to worry, to attend to

Derived terms

Derived terms

• âu lo
• chăm lo
• lo lắng
• lo sợ

 

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Welsh

Noun

lo m

1. Soft mutation of llo.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llo	lo	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Noun

lo m

1. Soft mutation of glo.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
glo	lo	nglo	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ló f. Cognate with Norwegian lo f, luv m, Old English wlōh f. Related to Old Norse lagðr m (“tuft of wool or hair”).

Noun

lo n

1. fluff
2. dust (of tissues)
3. fringe of cloth and other textiles

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German lōt, from Proto-Germanic *laudą.

Noun

lo n

1. plummet

Etymology 3

From Old Norse lófi, láfi (“threshing barn”). Cognate with Norwegian låve, Swedish loge.

Noun

lo m

1. threshing barn

Derived terms

• langlo (“oblong barn”)

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Xhosa

Etymology 1

Pronoun

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

-lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

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Zulu

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

Pronoun

lo

1. this; class 1 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

Stem -ló
Full form	ló
Locative	kulo
Full form	ló
Locative	kulo
Copulative	yilo
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	walo	owalo
Class 2	balo	abalo
Class 3	walo	owalo
Class 4	yalo	eyalo
Class 5	lalo	elalo
Class 6	alo	awalo
Class 7	salo	esalo
Class 8	zalo	ezalo
Class 9	yalo	eyalo
Class 10	zalo	ezalo
Class 11	lwalo	olwalo
Class 14	balo	obalo
Class 15	kwalo	okwalo
Class 17	kwalo	okwalo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈló/

Pronoun

lo

1. this; class 3 proximal demonstrative.

Inflection

Stem -ló
Full form	ló
Locative	kulo
Full form	ló
Locative	kulo
Copulative	yilo
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	walo	owalo
Class 2	balo	abalo
Class 3	walo	owalo
Class 4	yalo	eyalo
Class 5	lalo	elalo
Class 6	alo	awalo
Class 7	salo	esalo
Class 8	zalo	ezalo
Class 9	yalo	eyalo
Class 10	zalo	ezalo
Class 11	lwalo	olwalo
Class 14	balo	obalo
Class 15	kwalo	okwalo
Class 17	kwalo	okwalo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Pronoun

lo

1. Combining stem of lona.

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “lo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lo (3-8)”