Latinate form of a medieval name ofOld French origin, fromProto-Germanic*īhwaz(“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modernFrenchYves.
Ivo
- A malegiven name from the Germanic languages.
1970, John Wain,A Winter in the Hills, Viking Press, page45:It was so farcically alien to be called 'Roger' and 'Furnivall' in a place where everybody had names likeIvo and Gito and Madog.
- Used in medieval England, but rarer as a given name today. Modern American bearers of this name may be of Slavic origin. Also still used to translate the names of pre-modern figures namedYves.
Cognate to FrenchYves, and also a variant ofIvan.
Ivo m anim
- a malegiven name
Declension ofIvo (masculine animate in -o)
Short form ofIvar and, less often, ofIvan.
Ivo
- a malegiven name
FromIvana(“John”) +-o. Akin toEstonianIvo.
Ivo
- adiminutive of the malegiven nameIvana
| Declension ofIvo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination) |
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| singular | plural |
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| nominative | Ivo | Ivot |
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| genitive | Ivon | Ivvoin,Ivoloin |
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| partitive | Ivvoa | Ivoja,Ivoloja |
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| illative | Ivvoo | Ivvoi,Ivoloihe |
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| inessive | Ivos | Ivois,Ivolois |
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| elative | Ivost | Ivoist,Ivoloist |
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| allative | Ivolle | Ivoille,Ivoloille |
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| adessive | Ivol | Ivoil,Ivoloil |
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| ablative | Ivolt | Ivoilt,Ivoloilt |
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| translative | Ivoks | Ivoiks,Ivoloiks |
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| essive | Ivonna,Ivvoon | Ivoinna,Ivoloinna,Ivvoin,Ivoloin |
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| exessive1) | Ivont | Ivoint,Ivoloint |
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1) obsolete
*) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl)
**) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka? or-kä? to thegenitive. |
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page98
Cognate to EnglishIvo and FrenchYves.
Ivo m
- a malegiven name
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1962. Shortened fromIvars, also cognate toEnglishIvo, with ultimately the sameGermanic meaning "yew, bow (of yew)".
Ivo m
- a malegiven name
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990,→ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Two possible origins:
- Latinate form of a medieval name ofOld French origin, fromProto-Germanic*īhwaz(“yew, bow”). Name of French and English saints. Cognate withFrenchYves.
- Short form ofIvan.Doublet ofJoão,Ian,Jean,Ruan, andGeovane, all equivalents to EnglishJohn.
- Rhymes:-ivu
- Hyphenation:I‧vo
Ivo
- a malegiven name
A hypocoristic form ofIvan.
Ívo m (Cyrillic spellingИ́во)
- a malegiven name
Ivo m pers (diminutiveIvko)
- a malegiven name
- “Ivo”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
