Elmo
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See also: elmo
English
Etymology
From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar.
- By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛlmoʊ/
Proper noun
Elmo
- A male given name from Italian.
- 1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.:
- MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo. Wellington.
- 1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.:
- A city in Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Texas.
- A town in Utah.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (derogatory or humorous) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
- Synonyms: Elno, Elongated Muskrat, Phony Stark, Space Karen
- 2022 December 12, marie_cast (@[email protected]), Mastodon:
- Twitter was far from perfect before Elmo happened to it but it’s a total shitshow now!
- 2023 February 8, Jim Stewartson (@[email protected]), Mastodon:
- It is certainly conceivable that Elmo’s ragtag of leftover desperate engineers put out a feature without properly testing it. 😂
- 2023 March 19, Alice (@[email protected]), Mastodon:
- Incredible how low Twitter has sunk since Elmo fired the grownups.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Elmo.
Derived terms
Translations
male given name
Anagrams
Estonian
Proper noun
Elmo
- a male given name, equivalent to English Elmo
Finnish
Etymology
Ultimately from Italian . See English Elmo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elmo
- a male given name, equivalent to English Elmo
Declension
| Inflection of Elmo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Elmo | Elmot | |
| genitive | Elmon | Elmojen | |
| partitive | Elmoa | Elmoja | |
| illative | Elmoon | Elmoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Elmo | Elmot | |
| accusative | nom. | Elmo | Elmot |
| gen. | Elmon | ||
| genitive | Elmon | Elmojen | |
| partitive | Elmoa | Elmoja | |
| inessive | Elmossa | Elmoissa | |
| elative | Elmosta | Elmoista | |
| illative | Elmoon | Elmoihin | |
| adessive | Elmolla | Elmoilla | |
| ablative | Elmolta | Elmoilta | |
| allative | Elmolle | Elmoille | |
| essive | Elmona | Elmoina | |
| translative | Elmoksi | Elmoiksi | |
| abessive | Elmotta | Elmoitta | |
| instructive | — | Elmoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Statistics
- Elmo is the 273rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,710 male individuals (and as a middle name to 445 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
German
Proper noun
Elmo
- a male given name, equivalent to English Elmo