luo

From lui +‎ -o, from French louer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo/
• Rhymes: -uo

luo (uncountable, accusative luon)

1. rent

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:luo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈluo(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: luo

Truncated form of luokse.

luo

1. (of movement) to

   Miehen luo tuli nainen. ― A woman came to the man.

2. (with a person's home or some such as an object) to ('s place)

   Menin Pekan luo. ― I went to Pekka's place.

   Synonyms: luokse, tykö

   Antonyms: luota, tyköä

Unlike luota, luona and luokse, luo never receives a possessive suffix.

The inflection mostly conforms to a now obsolete system of generic local cases: locative (-nA), lative (-ksi) and separative (-tA).

• luottaa

• See the inflection table.

luo

1. Third-person singular indicative present form of luoda.

luo

1. Indicative present connegative form of luoda.

   En luo mitään. ― I don't create anything.

2. Second-person singular imperative present form of luoda.

   Luo se! ― Create it!

3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of luoda.

   Älä luo sitä! ― Don't create it!

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.oː/, [ˈɫʊ.oː]

Back-formed from the compounds (e.g. abluō), hence doublet of original lavō.

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I wash.
2. I cleanse, purge.

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692

From Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to cut off, separate, free”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λύω (lúō), English loose.

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I expiate.
2. I pay.
3. I suffer.
4. I satisfy.

• reluō
• solvō

• luēs

• luo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• luo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• luo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be punished for a thing, expiate it: poenam luere (alicuius rei) (Sull. 27. 76)
    
  • to atone for something by..: luere aliquid aliqua re (De Sen. 20)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681

luo

1. Nonstandard spelling of luō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of luó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of luǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of luò.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

luo m (plural luo)

1. Luo (member of a tribal group in eastern Africa)
2. Luo (a language spoken by the Luo people)