1:o

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Swedish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin, abbreviation of primo ōrdine (“first order, first rank”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

1:o (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) 1stly; used to enumerate the first item in a list; short for för det första (“firstly”).
    • 1925 [1786 October 24], Samuel Ödmann, edited by Henning Wijkmark, Samuel Ödmanns skrifter och brev‎, page 94:
      Min högtärade Käraste Broder! Frågas ödmjukt
      1:o Om min Bror har någon Theorie om de så kallade Poma Sodomitica? Hvad Hasselquist tänker vet jag, neml. att de göras af en Tenthredo.
      2:o Om Delphini i Indiske hafven, dem Bror vel sedt, synas skifta på blått till färgen, när de tumla i böljan?
      My dear dearest brother! I humbly ask
      1stly If my brother has any theory about the so-called Poma Sodomitica? I know what Hasselquist is thinking, viz. that they are made by a Tenthredo.
      2ndly If the dolphins in the Indian Ocean, those brother well seen, seem to shift to blue in color when they tumble in the waves?

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