# luo
## Translingual
### Symbol

luo
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Luo.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Luo terms

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From lui +‎ -o, from French louer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluo/
* Rhymes: -uo

### Noun

luo (uncountable, accusative luon)
* rent
For quotations using this term, see Citations:luo.

## Finnish
### Etymology 1

luo- +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular), from Proto-Finnic *loo-, possibly from Proto-Uralic *luwe (“downstream”). Related to Ingrian looks (~ luokse), Karelian luoh (~ luo) and Veps lon (~ luona).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -uo
* Hyphenation: luo

#### Postposition

luo [with genitive]
* (of movement) to, up to, to ('s place)
    Synonyms: luokse, tykö
    Antonyms: luota, tyköä
    Miehen luo tuli nainen. ― A woman came to the man.
    Menin Pekan luo. ― I went to Pekka's place.

##### Usage notes

luo cannot take a possessive suffix; luokse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

##### Inflection

Declension of luo
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
–superessive
genitive
–delative
partitive
luota
–sublative
accusative
–lative
luo
inessive
–temporal
elative
–causative
illative
–multiplicative
adessive
–distributive
ablative
–temp. dist.
allative
–prolative
essive
luona
–situative
translative
luokse
–oppositive
abessive
instructive
comitative
The inflection mostly conforms to a now obsolete system of generic locative cases: lative, locative and separative. See Appendix:Finnish adverbial cases for more information.

##### Derived terms

* loinen
* luokse
* luona
* luottaa

##### Related terms

* See the inflection table.

#### Further reading

* “luo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluo̯/, [ˈluo̞̯]
* Rhymes: -uo
* Hyphenation: luo

#### Verb

luo
* third-person singular present indicative of luoda

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈluo̯ˣ/, [ˈluo̞̯(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -uo
* Hyphenation: luo

#### Verb

luo
* present active indicative connegative of luoda
    En luo mitään. ― I don't create anything.
* second-person singular present imperative of luoda
    Luo se! ― Create it!
* second-person singular present active imperative connegative of luoda
    Älä luo sitä! ― Don't create it!

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlu.oː/, [ˈɫ̪uoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlu.o/, [ˈluːo]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
* to wash
* to cleanse, purge
    Synonyms: abstergeō, pūrgō, tergeō, putō, effingō
    Antonyms: maculō, inquinō, polluō, scelerō, contingō

##### Descendants

* → Spanish: luir (learned)

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lavō, -āre (> Derivatives > abluere)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 330-1

#### Further reading

* 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 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 692

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to cut off, separate, free”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λύω (lúō), English loose.

#### Verb

luō (present infinitive luere, perfect active luī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
* to let go, set free
* to atone for
    Synonym: expio
* to pay (a debt)
    Synonyms: ērogō, persolvo, solvo, pendo, absolvo, dissolvo
* to suffer (a punishment)
* to satisfy (someone)
    Synonym: expleo

##### Derived terms

* reluō
* solvō

##### Related terms

* luēs

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “luō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353

#### Further reading

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 681

## Mandarin
### Romanization

luo (luo$^5$ / luo$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨㄛ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 囉 / 啰

### Romanization

luo
* Nonstandard spelling of luō.
* Nonstandard spelling of luó.
* Nonstandard spelling of luǒ.
* Nonstandard spelling of luò.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Portuguese
### Noun

luo m (invariable)
* Luo (member of a tribal group in eastern Africa)
* Luo (a language spoken by the Luo people)