neo (pluralneos)
- (dated, fandomslang, science fiction)Clipping ofneofan.
1964 April 2, Bennett Ron,Skyrack[1], number65:Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of aneo who is reading sf for the first time.
1976 August 25, Ian Maule,Checkpoint[2], number72:This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: theneo, the trufan, and the BNF.
1996 November 3, Richard J. Faulder,Gegenschein[3], number80:Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as aneo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.
- (politics)Clipping ofneoconservative.
1994, Samuel Francis,Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, page180:Theneos seem to be no less uncomfortable with the paleos than the paleos are with theneos,[…]
2008, Ben J. Wattenberg,Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism, page 6:Some say theneos are good for what ails us on both foreign and domestic fronts, while others are quick to debate that.
- (LGBTQslang, chiefly in theplural)Clipping ofneopronoun.
neo
- (aviation)Alternativeletter-case form ofNEO
neo
- cookingoil,motor oil,gasoline.
- N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "neo", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo,→ISBN
- N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics,→ISBN
Fromne(“no”) +-o.
neo (accusative singularneon,pluralneoj,accusative pluralneojn)
- ano; an expression or vote of negation or opposition
La rezulto de la voĉdonado estis naŭ jesoj, trineoj, kaj unu sindeteno.- The result of the vote was nine yeses, threenoes, and one abstention.
FromLatinnaevus(“mole, birthmark”).
neo m (pluralnei)
- mole(on skin)
- beauty spot
- flaw,defect
neo m (invariable)
- (obsolete)Alternative form ofneon
FromProto-Italic*nēō, from earlier*nējō, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-.
neō (present infinitivenēre,perfect activenēvī,supinenētum);second conjugation
- (transitive) tospin;weave,interlace,entwine
- Synonym:fīlō(Late Latin)
Nē, māter; suam.- Weave, mother; [so that] I [can] sew.
neō
- dative/ablativesingular ofneon
- neo, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011
- “neo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “neo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- neo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
FromProto-West Germanic*nawi, fromProto-Germanic*nawiz,*nawaz(“corpse”), fromProto-Indo-European*neh₂w-(“the deceased, corpse”).
nēo n
- acorpse
Strongwa-stem:
Fromne- +eo(“ever”).
neo
- never
neo
- Alternative form ofno.
neo m (pluralneos)
- (rare)Alternative form ofneón
FromProto-Vietic*tʃ-rn-ɛːw, an*-rn-(instrumental derivative) infixed form ofProto-Vietic*tʃɛːw, whence ModernVietnamesexeo. Related tochèo(“oar”), derived from a differently infixed form.
(classifiermũi,cái) neo• (𪲍)
- (nautical)anchor
Cognate withMuong Biđeo(“few”).
neo
- (now rarely seen in isolation)few
1937,Ngô Tất Tố, chapter 2, inTắt đèn:- Tôi nói là nói người khác kia! Chứ ông... nhàneo, 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 issmall and you're always busy, how could I put any blame on you... Oh look, they have come!"
