# meo
## Translingual
### Symbol

meo
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kedah Malay.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Kedah Malay terms

## Bahnar
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛːw/

### Noun

meo
* cat

## Ido
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeo/

### Pronoun

meo
* (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) possessive pronoun

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.o/
* Rhymes: -ɛo
* Hyphenation: mè‧o

### Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

#### Adjective

meo (feminine mea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural mee)
* Old Italian form of mio

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

meo
* first-person singular present indicative of meare

### Anagrams

* Emo, emo-, omè

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.oː/, [ˈmeoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.o/, [ˈmɛːo]
* Hyphenation: me‧ō

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *meā, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

#### Verb

meō (present infinitive meāre, perfect active meāvī, supine meātum); first conjugation
* to go along, pass or traverse

##### Derived terms

* commeō
* meātor
* meātus
* permeō
* trānsmeō

##### Descendants

* Italian: meare
* Romansch: ir (within some conjugations)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronoun

meō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meus

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “meō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 373-4

### Further reading

* “meo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “meo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* meo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) I had not deserved it: nullo meo merito (ambiguous) a vague notion presents itself to my mind: aliquid animo meo obversatur (cf. sect. III, s. v. oculi) (ambiguous) the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet (ambiguous) to my sorrow: cum magno meo dolore (ambiguous) with perfect right: meo (tuo, suo) iure

## Lindu
### Noun

meo
* meow (sound of a cat)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.u/
* Hyphenation: mé‧o

### Determiner

meo (feminine minha, masculine plural meos, feminine plural minhas)
* Obsolete spelling of meu.

### Pronoun

meo (feminine minha, masculine plural meos, feminine plural minhas)
* Obsolete spelling of meu.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meo/

### Participle

meo (Cyrillic spelling мео)
* masculine singular active past participle of mesti

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeo/ [ˈme.o]
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: me‧o

### Verb

meo
* first-person singular present indicative of mear

## Uab Meto
### Noun

meo
* cat

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mɛw˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [mɛw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mɛw˧˧]

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

meo • (猫)
* (onomatopoeia) meow; miaow

##### Related terms

* méo; mèo
* Mẹo; Mão
* miêu

### Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 毛 (SV: mao).

#### Noun

meo • (苗)
* (now not used in isolation) mold; mildew
** 1937, Ngô Tất Tố, chapter 5, in Trong rừng nho:Giở đến hộp mực thì ra nước đã cạn khô. Lớp bông mực lên meo trắng xóa.When he opened the ink box, the ink had already gone dry. The inkpad was white due to mold infestation.

#### See also

* meo mốc
* mốc meo