Abbreviation ofEnglishNá-Meo.
neo
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forNá-Meo.
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.
- Clipping ofneodymium.
2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, inBloomberg Businessweek[4], archived fromthe original on18 July 2025:The most important application of dysprosium and terbium, which belong to a subgroup known as the heavy rare earths, is in devices called neodymium boron magnets, orneo magnets for short.
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.
- IPA(key): /ˈneo/
- Rhymes:-eo
- Syllabification:ne‧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.
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
neo
- (stative)bare,desolate
neo
- nothing
- achieving nothing,failure
Inherited fromLatinnaevus(“mole, birthmark”).
neo m (pluralnei)
- mole(on skin)
- beauty spot
- flaw,defect
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
neo m (invariable)
- (dated)alternative form ofneon
FromProto-Italic*nēō, itself fromProto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-. The term may derive from a root present or, alternatively, a ye-present*(s)néh₁yeti, which may also be attested inProto-Celtic*sniyeti. It is impossible to determine which of these forms is reflected in the Latin term. If the Latin word derived from the ye-present, the Proto-Italic term would have passed through an intermediate phase in*nējō.
neō (present infinitivenēre,perfect activenēvī,supinenētum);second conjugation
- (transitive) tospin;weave,interlace,entwine
- Synonym:fīlō(Late Latin)
1923, Guillaume Apollinaire, Matthew Josephson, “The poet assassinated”, inProject Gutenberg[5]: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.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008),Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page405
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001),Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag,→ISBN,pages571-572
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995),New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page531
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
- thảneo ―to dropanchor
neo
- toanchor
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!"
