oto

oto

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

Clipping of otocinclus.

oto (plural otos)

1. (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.

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

• OoT, oot, too

oto

1. waterfall

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

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: o‧to

oto (accusative singular oton, plural otoj, accusative plural otojn)

1. (anatomy, sciences) ear (chiefly in compounds)

• orelo

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

• tó

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

• IPA^(key): /ò.tó/, /ō.tó/

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

1. ear

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: oto

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

oto (first-person possessive otoku, second-person possessive otomu, third-person possessive otonya)

1. (dated or regional) car; automobile (a vehicle steered by a driver)

   Synonyms: automobil, mobil, otomobil

From Hokkien 圍兜／围兜 (û-to͘, “bib”).

oto

1. bib (item of clothing for babies)

• “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.

oto

1. Rōmaji transcription of おと

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.to/,

ōtō

1. dative/ablative singular of ōtus

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

• IPA^(key): /oˈto/
• Rhymes: -o

oto

1. (a) car

   Synonyms: òdomobìl, shar

• tu, otor, tur, to, tor

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

• IPA^(key): /uːtu/

oto

1. (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

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

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔtɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔtɔ/

oto

1. (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)]

• Polish: oto

• 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

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

oto

1. high
2. tall

• alto

• otero

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
• Syllabification: o‧to

oto

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. used to summarize a previous statement
4. used to say something was the best of its kind; now that's...

oto n

1. 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.

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.^[1]

• 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

• otto

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈotto/

oto

1. eight

• IPA^(key): /ˈoto/
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: o‧to

oto

1. first-person singular present indicative of otar

Borrowed from Dutch auto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.to/

oto

1. car, automobile

   Synonym: wagi

oto (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜆᜓ)

1. Alternative form of awto

Borrowed from French auto.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: o‧to

oto (definite accusative otoyu, plural otolar)

1. Clipping of otomobil. (auto, car)

• araba

From Latin octō. Compare Italian otto.

oto

1. eight

oto

1. eighth

Borrowed from French auto

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.tɔ/

oto ? (plural otos)

1. car

   Synonym: vweteure

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.t̪o/

oto

1. (intransitive) to cough

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

oto (definite form oto bi)

1. car, vehicle

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ò.tò/

òtò

1. (Ekiti) a general word for any of the various species of monkey

   Synonyms: ẹdụn, ọ̀bọ

• See ọ̀bọ for a list of more specific monkeys