# oto
## Translingual
### Symbol

oto
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Oto-Pamean languages.

## English
### Etymology

Clipping of otocinclus.

### Noun

oto (plural otos)
* (informal, fishkeeping) An otocinclus (freshwater fish, genus Otocinclus).
** 1998 January 24, LASP, “Dead tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc‎ (Usenet):All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine. There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.

#### Derived terms

* dwarf oto
* tiger oto (Otocinclus cocama)
* zebra oto (Otocinclus cocama)

### Anagrams

* OoT, oot, too

## Eastern Bontoc
### Noun

oto
* waterfall

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὠτ- (ōt-), from the root οὖς (oûs, “ear”). Compare English ot-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈoto]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Hyphenation: o‧to

### Noun

oto (accusative singular oton, plural otoj, accusative plural otojn)
* (anatomy, sciences) ear (chiefly in compounds)

#### Synonyms

* orelo

#### Derived terms

* ota (“related to the ear”)
* otalgio (“otalgia, earache”)
* otito (“otitis”)
* otologio (“otology”)
* otoskopo (“otoscope”)
* otoskopio (“otoscopy”)

## Gun
### Alternative forms

* tó

### Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *-tó. Cognates include Fon tó, Saxwe Gbe otó, Adja eto, Ewe eto

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ò.tó/, /ō.tó/

### Noun

òtó or otó (plural òtó lɛ́ or òtó lẹ́ or otó lɛ́ or otó lẹ́)
* ear

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔto]
* Hyphenation: oto

### Etymology 1

Clipping of otomobil, from Dutch automobiel (“car”).

#### Noun

oto (plural oto-oto)
* (dated or regional) car; automobile (a vehicle steered by a driver)
    Synonyms: automobil, mobil, otomobil

### Etymology 2

From Hokkien 圍兜 / 围兜 (û-to͘, “bib”).

#### Noun

oto
* bib (item of clothing for babies)

### Further reading

* “oto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

oto
* Rōmaji transcription of おと

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈoː.toː/, [ˈoːt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.to/, [ˈɔːt̪o]

### Noun

ōtō
* dative/ablative singular of ōtus

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French auto (“car”). Compare Mauritian Creole loto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈto/
* Rhymes: -o

### Noun

oto
* (a) car
    Synonyms: òdomobìl, shar

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoto/, [ˈɔ.t̪ʰɔ]
* Hyphenation: o‧to

### Etymology 1

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

### Noun

oto (Lontara spelling ᨕᨚᨈᨚ)
* A cloth covering the chest and abdomen of a child.

### Etymology 2

From Dutch auto (“car”).

### Noun

oto (Lontara spelling ᨕᨚᨈᨚ)
* car; automobile (a vehicle steered by a driver)

#### Related terms

* paraʼoto (truck, lorry)

#### Affixations

* aʼoto
* oto-oto
* paoto

#### Compounds

* oto lompo

### Further reading

* Cense, A. A. (1979) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tu, otor, tur, to, tor

### Etymology

Rebracketing of ut and or. See also på, poinni and tå.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uːtu/

### Preposition

oto
* (dialectal) alternative form of ut or (“from, out of”)
** 1901, A. Chr. Bang, Norske Hexeformularer og magiske Opskrifter:Vor Herre rei ivi Rønnings Hei, Foten oto Le'e skrei (quote after Jørgen Moe's notes, 1847)Our Lord was riding over the Rønningsheia, (and) the foot (of his horse or donkey) went out of the joint

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Univerbation of o +‎ to. First attested in the 15th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɔtɔ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɔtɔ/

### Particle

oto
* (attested in Greater Poland) used to indicate what the speaker will say or has said
** 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎, 1, 29:Y rzekl bog: Oto dalesm (ecce dedi) wam wszelkye szele[Y rzekł Bog: Oto dałeśm (ecce dedi) wam wszelkie ziele]
** 1965 [1456], Mikołaj z Pawłowic, edited by Henryk Kowalewicz, Średniowieczne zabytki języka polskiego w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu. Polskie glosy i zapiski z rękopisów 1728, 1732, 1752, Zeszyty Naukowe UAM, Greater Poland, page 97:Cepit... cum ea rixari dicens: Heccine sunt premia, otho sza twe odplathy, domina[Cepit... cum ea rixari dicens: Heccine sunt premia, oto są twe odpłaty, domina]
** 1901 [Middle of the 15th century], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 425:Oto [...] [mo]ya (ecce filia mea)[Oto [...] [mo]ja (ecce filia mea)]

#### Descendants

* Polish: oto

### References

* Mańczak, Witold (2017) “oto”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oto”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “oto”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin altus. Eventually replaced by the form alto, which has more learned influence.

### Adjective

oto
* high
* tall

#### Synonyms

* alto

#### Related terms

* otero

#### Descendants

* Spanish: oto (obsolete but found in toponyms and some derived words)
* Spanish: otear

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish oto. By surface analysis, univerbation of o +‎ to.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.tɔ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɔ.tɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
* Syllabification: o‧to

### Particle

oto
* used to indicate what the speaker will say or has said
    Synonym: to
    Niestety taki oto wizerunek dobra i miłości serwują nam środki masowego przekazu. ― Unfortunately, this is how goodness and love are presented by the mass media.
    Tu oto zaczynają się trudności. ― This is where the difficulties begin.
* used to show that what one will say next is a presentation of what they have said before
    Synonym: otóż
    Nie był to jednak koniec wrażeń. Oto bowiem pielęgniarka podeszła z zastrzykiem do mnie. ― However, this was not the end of it. For behold, a nurse approached me with an injection.
* used to summarize a previous statement
* used to say something was the best of its kind; now that's...

### Pronoun

oto n
* used to point to the object to which the sentence refers
    Synonym: to
    Oto coś na ciepło: bulion z żółtkiem i szparagi. ― Here's something hot: broth with egg yolk and asparagus.

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oto is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 16 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 13 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 823rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “oto”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 347

### Further reading

* oto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* oto in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oto”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “oto”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “oto”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oto”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 902
* oto in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* otto

### Etymology

From Latin octō, from Proto-Italic *oktō, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈotto/

### Numeral

oto
* eight

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoto/ [ˈo.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Syllabification: o‧to

### Verb

oto
* first-person singular present indicative of otar

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch auto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.to/

### Noun

oto
* car, automobile
    Synonym: wagi

## Tagalog
### Noun

oto (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜆᜓ)
* Alternative form of awto

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French auto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [oto]
* Hyphenation: o‧to

### Noun

oto (definite accusative otoyu, plural otolar)
* Clipping of otomobil. (auto, car)

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
oto
otolar
definite accusative
otoyu
otoları
dative
otoya
otolara
locative
otoda
otolarda
ablative
otodan
otolardan
genitive
otonun
otoların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
otom
otolarım
2nd singular
oton
otoların
3rd singular
otosu
otoları
1st plural
otomuz
otolarımız
2nd plural
otonuz
otolarınız
3rd plural
otoları
otoları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
otomu
otolarımı
2nd singular
otonu
otolarını
3rd singular
otosunu
otolarını
1st plural
otomuzu
otolarımızı
2nd plural
otonuzu
otolarınızı
3rd plural
otolarını
otolarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
otoma
otolarıma
2nd singular
otona
otolarına
3rd singular
otosuna
otolarına
1st plural
otomuza
otolarımıza
2nd plural
otonuza
otolarınıza
3rd plural
otolarına
otolarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
otomda
otolarımda
2nd singular
otonda
otolarında
3rd singular
otosunda
otolarında
1st plural
otomuzda
otolarımızda
2nd plural
otonuzda
otolarınızda
3rd plural
otolarında
otolarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
otomdan
otolarımdan
2nd singular
otondan
otolarından
3rd singular
otosundan
otolarından
1st plural
otomuzdan
otolarımızdan
2nd plural
otonuzdan
otolarınızdan
3rd plural
otolarından
otolarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
otomun
otolarımın
2nd singular
otonun
otolarının
3rd singular
otosunun
otolarının
1st plural
otomuzun
otolarımızın
2nd plural
otonuzun
otolarınızın
3rd plural
otolarının
otolarının
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
otoyum
otolarım
2nd singular
otosun
otolarsın
3rd singular
oto otodur
otolar otolardır
1st plural
otoyuz
otolarız
2nd plural
otosunuz
otolarsınız
3rd plural
otolar
otolardır :

#### See also

* araba

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin octō. Compare Italian otto.

### Numeral

oto
* eight

### Adjective

oto
* eighth

## Walloon
### Etymology

Borrowed from French auto

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ.tɔ/

### Noun

oto ? (plural otos)
* car
    Synonym: vweteure

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.t̪o/

### Verb

oto
* (intransitive) to cough

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Wolof
### Noun

oto (definite form oto bi)
* car, vehicle

### References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 258

## Yoruba
### Etymology

Compare with Ede Idaca àtò, Yoruba àtò (Owe), Fon àtò, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *à-tò

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ò.tò/

### Noun

òtò
* (Ekiti) a general word for any of the various species of monkey
    Synonyms: ẹdụn, ọ̀bọ

#### Usage notes

* See ọ̀bọ for a list of more specific monkeys