imo

1. Alternative form ofIMO.

• satsuma imo

• IOM,MOI,Mio,mo'i,moi,omi

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*imu.

imo

1. you

• imoha

• IPA^(key):/ˈʔimo/ [ˈʔi.mo]
• Hyphenation:i‧mo

imo

1. you (2nd person singular preposed ergative form)
2. (in thesingular)yours

imo

1. (slang,humorous) one'sgenitalia

imo

1. (in thesingular)your

• IPA^(key):/ˈi.mo/
• Rhymes:-imo
• Hyphenation:ì‧mo

FromLatinīmus, superlative form ofīnferus(“low”, “deep”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*n̥dʰér.

imo (feminineima,masculine pluralimi,feminine pluralime)(obsolete,poetic)

1. (literal) located in thelowest orinnermost part
2. (by extension)low,deep

   Synonym:infero

   • 1374,Francesco Petrarca, “Pommi ove 'l sole occide i fiori et l'erba”, inIl Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini, published1858,p.143):

     Ponm' in cielo od in terra od in abisso, ¶ in alto poggio, in valleima e palustre, ¶ libero spirto, od a' suoi membri affisso; [...]

     Set me in heaven, on earth, or in the depths, ¶ on a high hill, or in adeep marshy vale, ¶ a spirit freed, or imprisoned in its limbs; [...]

   • 1850,Giosuè Carducci, “La selva primitiva” (Juvenilia,Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli (1906), p.109, Libro LVII), vv. 43-44:

     [...] un tremor gelido ¶ per l'ossaime gli corse; e s'atterrava, ¶ e gemea [...]

     [...] a freezing chill ¶ ran through hisdeep bones; and he dropped ¶ and wailed [...]

3. (figurative) of a lowsocial status(of people)
   • 1581,Torquato Tasso,Gerusalemme liberata, Erasmo Viotti, p.222, Canto IX:

     Miete i vili, e i potenti: e i più sublimi ¶ e più superbi capi adegua agl’imi.

     It breaks vile and mighty alike: and makes the noblest ¶ and proudest leaders one with thelowest.

4. (rare,figurative)inappropriate,vulgar,uncouth(of things)

• inferiore
• infero
• infimo

FromLatinīmum, substantivization of the neuter form ofīmus(“lowest”, “deepest”).

imo m (pluralimi)

1. (obsolete)bottom;base

   Synonyms:(more common)base,(more common)fondo

   Antonyms:apice,culmine,sommità,vetta

   • 1472,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published1994,Canto XXIX, p. 430, vv. 37-39:

     Così parlammo infino al loco primo ¶ che dello scoglio l'altra valle mostra, ¶ se più lume vi fosse, tutto adimo.

     Thus did we speak as far as the first place ¶ upon the crag, which the next valley shows ¶ down to thebottom, if there were more light.

• mio,mio-

imo

1. Rōmaji transcription ofいも

Variant form.

imō (notcomparable)

1. Alternative form ofimmō
   • c. 405,Saint Jerome,Epistola 106:

     Quis hoc crederet, ut barbara Getarum lingua Hebraicam quaereret veritatem; et dormitantibus,imo contendentibus Graecis, ipsa Germania Spiritus Sancti eloquia scrutaretur!

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

īmō

1. dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofīmus

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

īmō n

1. dative/ablativesingular ofīmum(“bottom, base”)

• “imo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Regularised form.

imo

1. (proscribed,Caipira)first-personpluralfutureindicative ofir

imo (i-ova class, pluralovamo)

1. belly

FromProto-Finnic*himo.

• (Luutsa,Liivtšülä)IPA^(key):/ˈimo/,[ˈimo]
• Rhymes:-imo
• Hyphenation:i‧mo

imo

1. wish,desire
2. appetite

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “imo”, inVadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn