English

Proper noun

Emo

1. A village in Ireland
2. A township in Ontario

English

Noun

emo ‎(countable and uncountable, plural emos)

1. (uncountable, music, early 1990s) A particular style of hardcore punk rock
2. (countable, early 1990s) An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
3. (uncountable, music, late 1990s-current) Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
4. (countable, late 1990s-current) An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
5. (countable, 2000s) A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.

Translations

Adjective

emo ‎(comparative more emo, superlative most emo)

1. (often pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
2. (informal, often pejorative) Depressed.
   • 2008, Vanity Fair (issue 578)

     Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.

3. Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
   • 2007, James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing

     The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo.

   • 2012, Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen

     Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

Derived terms

• emotard

Anagrams

• EOM, Moe, moe, moé, OEM

Esperanto

Noun

emo ‎(accusative singular emon, plural emoj, accusative plural emojn)

1. tendency, inclination

Synonyms

• inklino

Related terms

• ema
• emi

Finnish

Etymology

From emä ‎(“mother (archaic), womb”).

Noun

emo

1. mother (animal female parent)
2. (archaic) mother (woman with children)
3. dam (female parent, generally regarding breeding of animals)

Declension

Derived terms

• emoalus
• emolevy
• emoyhtiö

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *emō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‎(“to take, distribute”), (with excrescent p in ēmptum). Cognate with Lithuanian im̃ti, Old Church Slavonic имѫ ‎(imǫ) and possibly Old Armenian իմանամ ‎(imanam). Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *nem- ‎(“to take or give ones due”), with its descendants English nim, Danish nemme, Dutch nemen, German nehmen, West Frisian nimme, Ancient Greek νέμω ‎(némō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.moː/

Verb

emō ‎(present infinitive emere, perfect active ēmī, supine ēmptum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) I buy, purchase.
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ioannes.4.8

     discipuli enim eius abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent

     so his disciples had gone away unto the city to buy food

   Quantīs haec poma ēmisti?‎

   How much have you paid for these fruits?

2. (figuratively) I acquire, procure.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• emo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• emo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “emo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
    
  • to buy dearly: magno or male emere
    
  • after having completed one's service: emeritis stipendiis (Sall. Iug. 84. 2)
    

Swedish

Noun

emo c, n

1. emo (3), a genre of music and the fashion associated with it
2. an emo (4), a fan of the previous

Declension