co

See also: Appendix:Variations of "co" and со

English

Etymology 1

Noun

co (plural cos)

  1. (slang) company
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: kō, IPA(key): /koʊ/

Pronoun

co (third-person singular, gender-neutral, reflexive coself)

  1. (neologism, nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
    • 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream:
      Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]
    • 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:
      At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]
    • 2004 April 1, "Pieira dos Lobos" (username), "Fern's Story two", alt.magick.serious, Usenet:
      A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.
  2. (neologism, nonstandard) them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
Hyponyms
Derived terms

See also

  • other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡so/
  • audio(file)

Pronoun

co

  1. what
    Co se děje?
    What's up?
    Co se stalo?
    What happened?

Conjunction

co

  1. that
    Od té doby, co jsme spolu...
    Since we’ve been together... (lit.) Since the time that we’ve been together...
  2. what
    Ví, co chce.
    He knows what he wants.

Particle

co

  1. (indeclinable) isn't it so, don't you think?
    To je pěkné, co?
    That’s nice, isn’t it?

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Pronoun

co

  1. what

Dumbea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soː/

Noun

co

  1. water

References

Esperanto

Noun

co (accusative singular co-on, plural co-oj, accusative plural co-ojn)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

See also

Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + masculine definite article o (“the”)

Contraction

co m (feminine coa, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

  1. with the

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French coc.

Noun

co m

  1. rooster, cockerel, cock

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tso/

Pronoun

co (plural ci)

  1. Alternative form of ico

Kurdish

Etymology 1

Compare Persian جوی‎ (juy) or Persian جو‎ (ju).

Alternative forms

Noun

co m

  1. ditch, trench, channel, canal, duct, fosse, aqueduct, sluice

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Persian جو‎ (jow).

Alternative forms

Noun

co f

  1. (Sorani) barley

Ladin

Conjunction

co

  1. than (used in comparisons)

Adverb

co

  1. how (in what manner)
  2. how (in what state)

Derived terms

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɔ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronoun

co

  1. what (interrogative)
Declension

Etymology 2

Inflected form of kśěś.

Verb

co

  1. third-person singular present of kśěś

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French colp, coup, from Vulgar Latin *colpus, from Classical Latin colaphus (“blow with the fist; cuff”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, slap”).

Noun

co m (plural cos)

  1. (Jersey) blow
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French coq, coc.

Noun

co m (plural cos)

  1. (Jersey) cockerel
Derived terms
  • co journieaux

Etymology 3

From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).

Noun

co m (plural cos)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey, Normandy, anatomy) neck
Alternative forms
  • ko (Sark)

Old Irish

Adverb

co

  1. (interrogative) how?
    Co·bbia mo ḟechtas? ― How will my expedition be?

Usage notes

Is followed by the dependent form of the verb, which is neither nasalized nor lenited.

Descendants

  • Irish: go
  • Scottish Gaelic: gu
  • Manx: dy

Preposition

co

  1. to, toward

Descendants

Conjunction

co (triggers eclipsis; followed by the prototonic or conjunct form of a verb; may be followed by an infixed pronoun)

  1. until
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c22
      ní fitir cid muntar nime conidro·foilsigsetar apstil doib
      not even heaven’s household knew it until the apostles had revealed it to them

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɔ/
  • audio(file)

Pronoun

co

  1. what

Declension

Further reading

  • co in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) che
  • (Sutsilvan) ca
  • (Surmiran) tgi
  • (Puter) cu

Etymology

From Latin quam or quod.

Conjunction

co

  1. (Vallader) than

Spanish

Noun

co m (plural cos)

  1. (Aragon, colloquial) dude, friend

Pronoun

co

  1. Misspelling of có.

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin cum. Compare Italian con

Preposition

co

  1. with, together

See also

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

co

  1. to shrink (to become smaller)

Noun

co

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