luo

luo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Luo.

From lui +‎ -o, from French louer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo/
• Rhymes: -uo

luo (uncountable, accusative luon)

1. rent

For quotations using this term, see Citations:luo.

luo- +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular), from Proto-Finnic *loo-, possibly from Proto-Uralic *luwe (“downstream”). Related to Ingrian looks (~ luokse), Karelian luoh (~ luo) and Veps lon (~ luona).

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

luo [with genitive]

1. (of movement) to, up to, to ('s place)

   Synonyms: luokse, tykö

   Antonyms: luota, tyköä

   Miehen luo tuli nainen. ― A woman came to the man.

   Menin Pekan luo. ― I went to Pekka's place.

luo cannot take a possessive suffix; luokse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

The inflection mostly conforms to a now obsolete system of generic locative cases: lative, locative and separative. See Appendix:Finnish adverbial cases for more information.

• See the inflection table.

• “luo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯/, [ˈluo̞̯]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

luo

1. third-person singular present indicative of luoda

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation^(key): luo

luo

1. present active indicative connegative of luoda

   En luo mitään. ― I don't create anything.

2. second-person singular present imperative of luoda

   Luo se! ― Create it!

3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of luoda

   Älä luo sitä! ― Don't create it!

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.oː/, [ˈɫ̪uoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.o/, [ˈluːo]

Back-formed from compounds (e.g. abluō), hence doublet of the original lavō.^[1]

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to wash
2. to cleanse, purge

   Synonyms: abstergeō, pūrgō, tergeō, putō, effingō

   Antonyms: maculō, inquinō, polluō, scelerō, contingō

• → Spanish: luir (learned)

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692

From Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate, free”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λύω (lúō), English loose.^[1]

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to let go, set free
2. to atone for

   Synonym: expio

3. to pay (a debt)

   Synonyms: ērogō, persolvo, solvo, pendo, absolvo, dissolvo

4. to suffer (a punishment)
5. to satisfy (someone)

   Synonym: expleo

• reluō
• solvō

• luēs

• “luo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• luo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be punished for a thing, expiate it: poenam luere (alicuius rei) (Sull. 27. 76)
    
  • to atone for something by..: luere aliquid aliqua re (De Sen. 20)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681

luo (luo⁵／luo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囉／啰

luo

1. Nonstandard spelling of luō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of luó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of luǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of luò.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

luo m (invariable)

1. Luo (member of a tribal group in eastern Africa)
2. Luo (a language spoken by the Luo people)