meo

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See also: Meo, méo, meó, mèo, Mèo, Mẹo, and me'o

Bahnar

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Noun

meo 

  1. cat

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.o/
  • Rhymes: -ɛo
  • Hyphenation: mè‧o

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Adjective

meo (feminine mea, masculine plural mei, feminine plural mee)

  1. Old Italian form of mio

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

meo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of meare

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *meā, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-.

Verb

meō (present infinitive meāre, perfect active meāvī, supine meātum); first conjugation

  1. to go along, pass or traverse
Conjugation
   Conjugation of meō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present meō meās meat meāmus meātis meant
imperfect meābam meābās meābat meābāmus meābātis meābant
future meābō meābis meābit meābimus meābitis meābunt
perfect meāvī meāvistī meāvit meāvimus meāvistis meāvērunt,
meāvēre
pluperfect meāveram meāverās meāverat meāverāmus meāverātis meāverant
future perfect meāverō meāveris meāverit meāverimus meāveritis meāverint
passive present meor meāris,
meāre
meātur meāmur meāminī meantur
imperfect meābar meābāris,
meābāre
meābātur meābāmur meābāminī meābantur
future meābor meāberis,
meābere
meābitur meābimur meābiminī meābuntur
perfect meātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect meātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect meātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present meem meēs meet meēmus meētis meent
imperfect meārem meārēs meāret meārēmus meārētis meārent
perfect meāverim meāverīs meāverit meāverīmus meāverītis meāverint
pluperfect meāvissem meāvissēs meāvisset meāvissēmus meāvissētis meāvissent
passive present meer meēris,
meēre
meētur meēmur meēminī meentur
imperfect meārer meārēris,
meārēre
meārētur meārēmur meārēminī meārentur
perfect meātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect meātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present meā meāte
future meātō meātō meātōte meantō
passive present meāre meāminī
future meātor meātor meantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives meāre meāvisse meātūrum esse meārī meātum esse meātum īrī
participles meāns meātūrus meātus meandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
meandī meandō meandum meandō meātum meātū
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Italian: meare
  • Romansch: ir (within some conjugations)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

meō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meus

References

  • 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

  1. meow (sound of a cat)

Portuguese

Determiner

meo (feminine minha, masculine plural meos, feminine plural minhas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of meu

Pronoun

meo (feminine minha, masculine plural meos, feminine plural minhas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of meu

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

meo (Cyrillic spelling мео)

  1. masculine singular active past participle of mesti

Spanish

Verb

meo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mear

Uab Meto

Noun

meo

  1. cat

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

meo ()

  1. (onomatopoeia) meow; miaow
Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

meo ()

  1. (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.

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Derived terms