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.

The k-lative singular of luo-, from Proto-Finnic *loo-, related to Ingrian looks (~ luokse), Karelian luoh (~ luo) and Veps lon (~ luona).

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

luo

1. (of movement) to

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

2. (with a person's home or some such as an object) to ('s place)

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

   Synonyms: luokse, tykö

   Antonyms: luota, tyköä

luo never receives a possessive suffix; luokse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

The inflection mostly conforms to a now obsolete system of generic local cases: locative (-nA), lative (-ksi) and separative (-tA).

• luottaa

• See the inflection table.

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

luo

1. third-person singular present indicative of luoda

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(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) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.oː/, [ˈɫ̪uoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.o/, [ˈluːo]

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

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

1. I wash.
2. I 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.

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

1. I expiate.

   Synonym: expio

2. I pay.

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

3. I suffer.
4. I satisfy.

   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, 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

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

• 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.

luo m (invariable)

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