imo

imo

1. Alternative form of IMO.

• IOM, MOI, Mio, mo'i, moi, omi

• imoha

imo

1. you (2nd person singular preposed ergative form)
2. (singular) yours
3. (slang, humorous) one's genitalia

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mo/, [ˈiːmo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Stress: ìmo
• Hyphenation: i‧mo

From Latin īmus, superlative form of īnferus (“low”, “deep”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n̥dʰér.

imo (feminine singular ima, masculine plural imi, feminine plural ime) (obsolete, poetic)

1. (literally) located in the lowest or innermost part
2. (by extension) low, deep
   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Pommi ove 'l sole occide i fiori et l'erba” (Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.143) :

     Ponm' in cielo od in terra od in abisso, ¶ in alto poggio, in valle ima 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 a deep 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'ossa ime gli corse; e s'atterrava, ¶ e gemea [...]

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

3. (figuratively, of people) of a low social status
   • 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 the lowest.

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

• (2): infero

• inferiore
• infero
• infimo

From Latin īmum, substantivization of the neuter form of īmus (“lowest”, “deepest”).

imo m (plural imi)

1. (obsolete) bottom; base
   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), 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 ad imo.

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

• base, fondo (more common)

• apice, culmine, sommità, vetta

• mio

imo

1. Rōmaji transcription of いも

īmō

1. dative masculine singular of īmus
2. dative neuter singular of īmus
3. ablative masculine singular of īmus
4. ablative neuter singular of īmus
5. Alternative form of immo

• imo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

imo (i-ova class, plural ovamo)

1. belly