English

Initialism

IMO

1. (business) Initialism of Information Management Officer.
2. (Internet) Initialism of in my opinion.
3. (nautical) Initialism of International Maritime Organization.

Related terms

• (internet): IMHO, IMNSHO

Translations

Anagrams

• IOM

Italian

Adjective

imo m ‎(feminine singular ima, masculine plural imi, feminine plural ime) (obsolete, poetic)

1. (literally) located in the lowest or innermost part
2. (by extension) low, deep
   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Pommi ove 'l sole occide i fiori et l'erba” (Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.143) :

     Ponm' in cielo od in terra od in abisso, ¶ in alto poggio, in valle ima e palustre, ¶ libero spirto, od a' suoi membri affisso; [...]

     Set me in heaven, on earth, or in the depths, ¶ on a high hill, or in a deep marshy vale, ¶ a spirit freed, or imprisoned in its limbs; [...]

   • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, “La selva primitiva” (Juvenilia, Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli (1906), p. 109, Libro LVII), vv. 43-44:

     [...] un tremor gelido ¶ per l'ossa ime gli corse; e s'atterrava, ¶ e gemea [...]

     [...] a freezing chill ¶ ran through his deep bones; and he dropped ¶ and wailed [...]

3. (figuratively, of people) of a low social status
   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, Erasmo Viotti, p.222, Canto IX:

     Miete i vili, e i potenti: e i più sublimi ¶ e più superbi capi adegua agl’imi.

     It breaks vile and mighty alike: and makes the noblest ¶ and proudest leaders one with the lowest.

4. (rare, figuratively, of things) inappropriate, vulgar, uncouth

Synonyms

• (2): infero

Related terms

• inferiore
• infero
• infimo

Etymology 2

From Latin īmum, substantivization of the neuter form of īmus ‎(“lowest”, “deepest”).

Noun

imo m ‎(plural imi)

1. (obsolete) bottom; base
   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXIX, p. 430, vv. 37-39:

     Così parlammo infino al loco primo ¶ che dello scoglio l'altra valle mostra, ¶ se più lume vi fosse, tutto ad imo.

     Thus did we speak as far as the first place ¶ upon the crag, which the next valley shows ¶ down to the bottom, if there were more light.

Synonyms

• base, fondo (more common)

Antonyms

• apice, culmine, sommità, vetta

Anagrams

• mio

Japanese

Romanization

imo

1. rōmaji reading of いも

Latin

Adjective

īmō

1. dative masculine singular of īmus
2. dative neuter singular of īmus
3. ablative masculine singular of īmus
4. ablative neuter singular of īmus
5. Alternative form of immo

References

• imo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “imo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Umbundu

Noun

imo (i-ova class, plural ovamo)

1. belly