Seppo
See also: seppo
English edit
Etymology edit
From septic tank (“rhyming slang for Yank”) + -o (“colloquialising suffix”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Seppo (plural Seppos)
- (Australia, New Zealand, rhyming slang, derogatory) An American.
- Synonyms: (UK) septic; see also Thesaurus:American
- 2010, Emily Maguire, Smoke in the Room, page 17:
- ‘So, Adam, you have the privilege of being my first Seppo.’
‘Your first what?’
‘Seppo. You′ve gotta learn to speak Aussie, man. You′re a Yank, so –’
‘No, not a Yankee. I′m from –’
‘The You Ess Ay. Makes you a Yank. Yank rhymes with septic tank. But we like to shorten names and then add an O at the end - but only if we like you. So Yank is kind of neutral. Septic tank is rude. But Seppo, well, it′s affectionate. Get it?’
‘No.’
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From seppo (“smith, skillful person”), an epithet of the smith Ilmarinen in the Kalevala. Compare Aino.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Seppo
- a male given name
- 1974, Alpo Ruuth, Kotimaa, Tammi, →ISBN, page 167:
- Kun meidän esikoinen syntyi, niille annettiin nimeksi Seppo ja Pekka ja Tauno.
- Back when we had our eldest son, he was named Seppo and Pekka and Tauno.
- 1999, Juhani Syrjä, Juho, Gummerus 2008, →ISBN, Juho 19-33, page 182:
- Tukevalle ja isokouraiselle pojalle annoimme nimeksi Seppo.
- We named the sturdy and big-handed boy Seppo.
- a Finnish surname
Usage notes edit
- Popular in the 1940s and the 1950s, often in the combination Seppo Ilmari.
Declension edit
Inflection of Seppo (Kotus type 1*B/valo, pp-p gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Seppo | Sepot | ||
genitive | Sepon | Seppojen | ||
partitive | Seppoa | Seppoja | ||
illative | Seppoon | Seppoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Seppo | Sepot | ||
accusative | nom. | Seppo | Sepot | |
gen. | Sepon | |||
genitive | Sepon | Seppojen | ||
partitive | Seppoa | Seppoja | ||
inessive | Sepossa | Sepoissa | ||
elative | Seposta | Sepoista | ||
illative | Seppoon | Seppoihin | ||
adessive | Sepolla | Sepoilla | ||
ablative | Sepolta | Sepoilta | ||
allative | Sepolle | Sepoille | ||
essive | Seppona | Seppoina | ||
translative | Sepoksi | Sepoiksi | ||
abessive | Sepotta | Sepoitta | ||
instructive | — | Sepoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- Seppo is the 17th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 25,929 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,946 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Seppo belongs to 60 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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- Rhymes:Finnish/epːo
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