The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lo \Lo\, interj. [OE. lo, low; perh. akin to E. look, v.]
Look; see; behold; observe. ``Lo, here is Christ.''
--Matt.
xxiv. 23. ``Lo, we turn to the Gentiles.''
--Acts xiii. 46.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old English la, exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy; influenced in Middle English by lo!, short for lok "look!" imperative of loken "to look" (see look (v.)). Expression lo and behold attested by 1779.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 contraction (context colloquial English) hello ('lo; see hallo) interj. (context archaic English) look, see, behold (qualifier: in an imperative sense). Etymology 2
a. (informal spelling of low English)
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Lô may refer to:
- Cheikh Lô, Senegalese musician
- Ismaël Lô (born 1956), Senegalese musician
- Maodo Lô (born 1992), German basketball player
Lo (sometimes wrongly spelled Loh) is an island of the Torres group of islands, in northern Vanuatu.
The 210 inhabitants of Lo live in two villages: Lungharegi and Rinuhe. They speak the Lo dialect of the Lo-Toga language.
Lo is a 2009 experimental comedy/ horror/ romance film written and directed by Travis Betz. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival October 2009 and had DVD release in February 2010.
Usage examples of "lo".
Ann they had both been aboad a bus cruising at eighteen miles an hour along the sixty-lane freeway that ran from Bear Canyon to Pasadena, near the middle of Los Angeles.
National Conference of the Adoptive Families of America at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton.
Rusia amable y fastuosa, pisoteada por los palafreneros y los utopistas.
Most Americans are paranoid by nature, and Los Angelites habitually border on the psychotic.
See how he yawneth, lo, this drunken wight, As though he would us swallow anon right.
En esas tierras otra imagen, la de Billy the Kid: el jinete clavado sobre el caballo, el joven de los duros pistoletazos que aturden el desierto, el emisor de balas invisibles que matan a distancia, como una magia.
And, for they writen of battailes, As well as other old marvailes, Therefore was, lo!
Por no tener con que enbarcarme en la nao en que ba el birrey Ruy Lorenco de Tauora, por auerlo perdido con la nao San Andres, he determinado hirme a Ormuz y de alli, por tierra, con la cafila de los mercaderes benecianos, y peregrinando poco a poco asta Alepo, y de alli a Benencia y otras partes, asta llegar a esa Corte y besar las manos a V.
No one except that freaky commune in Los Angeles and, at first, he had discounted Biggie and his crowd.
Los de a pie que no llevan escopetas tienen lanza, flecha, y honda con su provision de piedras en un bolson como de granaderos.
Sime dressed, went out in the chilly drizzle, and boarded one of the crowded buses carrying selected Los Alamos scientists and engineers to the test ground.
Para mejor efectuar su negocio, a los 11 de Junio de 1606 estando en la baya, que beniamos de una isla que estaba cerca, bino a las ocho de la noche el viento Sul algo fresco, conque los amotinados pusieron por hobra su mal intento, y siendo de noche, y lejos de nosotros alsaron en popa, sin berlo ese hablador por estar en su camara de popa.
Despues que sale de comer y para descansar an poco, y mientras descansa salen fuera los que assisten en la casa del Padre, y los que trabajan dentro en algunas obras y tamvien el Sachristan y el cosinero: todos estos salen fuera y quando no se toca la campana estan serradas las puertas, y solo un viejo es el que cuida de las puertas, y quando vuelvan a tocar la campana, vuelve este a abrirlas para que vuelvan a entrar los que trabajan dentro, y el Padre Coge el Brebiario no a ir a parte ninguna.
He explained how Los Yanquis Negros had brushed with Victorio at a place called Los Manantiales de Culebra de Cascabel and chased him across the border into Chihuahua.
Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Cosmocrats had swept the state, and in those two great cities they held a commanding lead.