neo
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neo (plural neos)
- (dated, fandom slang, science fiction) Clipping of neofan.
- 1964 April 2, Bennett Ron, Skyrack[1], number 65:
- Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time.
- 1976 August 25, Ian Maule, Checkpoint[2], number 72:
- This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF.
- 1996 November 3, Richard J. Faulder, Gegenschein[3], number 80:
- Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as a neo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.
- (politics) Clipping of neoconservative.
- 1994, Samuel Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, page 180:
- The neos seem to be no less uncomfortable with the paleos than the paleos are with the neos, […]
- 2008, Ben J. Wattenberg, Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism, page 6:
- Some say the neos are good for what ails us on both foreign and domestic fronts, while others are quick to debate that.
- (LGBT, slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of neopronoun.
Etymology 2 edit
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neo
- (aviation) Alternative letter-case form of NEO
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neo
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Etymology edit
From Latin naevus (“mole, birthmark”).
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neo m (plural nei)
- mole (on skin)
- beauty spot
- flaw, defect
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neo m (invariable)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *nēō, from earlier *nējō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈne.oː/, [ˈneoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.o/, [ˈnɛːo]
Verb edit
neō (present infinitive nēre, perfect active nēvī, supine nētum); second conjugation
- (transitive) to spin; weave, interlace, entwine
- Nē, māter; suam.
- Weave, mother; [so that] I [can] sew.
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neō
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- “neo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “neo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- neo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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From Proto-West Germanic *nawi, from Proto-Germanic *nawiz, *nawaz (“corpse”), from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“the deceased, corpse”).
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nēo n
- a corpse
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Declension of neo (strong wa-stem)
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neo
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neo
- Alternative form of no.
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neo m (plural neos)
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- “neo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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From Proto-Vietic *tʃ-rn-ɛːw, an *-rn- (instrumental derivative) infixed form of Proto-Vietic *tʃɛːw, whence Modern Vietnamese xeo. Related to chèo (“oar”), derived from a differently infixed form.
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(classifier mũi, cái) neo • (𪲍)
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Cognate with Muong Bi đeo (“few”).
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neo
- (now rarely seen in isolation) few
- 1937, Ngô Tất Tố, chapter 2, in Tắt đèn:
- - Tôi nói là nói người khác kia! Chứ ông... nhà neo, lắm việc, tôi có trách gì ông đâu... Kìa các ông ấy đã ra cả kìa!
- "It's other people that I talked about! As for you, your family is small and you're always busy, how could I put any blame on you... Oh look, they have come!"