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loitto

(archaic) distant (located far away)
- 1915, Valter juva (tr.), “Jumalien tanhu (title of a poem)”, in Valikoima runoja (A collection of poems), translation of Gudarne dansa (Dance of the gods) by Gustaf Fröding:
  Noin jumalat ylhät, riemuin ja soitoin; ne arvoisin elein ja katsehin loitoin; kävi juhlaan, …
  Thus the noble gods with joy and music; with dignified gestures and distant gazes; began the party, …

Currently only adessive, ablative and allative cases are used as adverbs; other cases are obsolete, including nominative.

Inflection of loitto (Kotus type 1/valo, tt-t gradation)
nominative		loitto	loitot
genitive		loiton	loittojen
partitive		loittoa	loittoja
illative		loittoon	loittoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		loitto	loitot
accusative	nom.	loitto	loitot
accusative	gen.	loiton	loitot
genitive		loiton	loittojen
partitive		loittoa	loittoja
inessive		loitossa	loitoissa
elative		loitosta	loitoista
illative		loittoon	loittoihin
adessive		loitolla	loitoilla
ablative		loitolta	loitoilta
allative		loitolle	loitoille
essive		loittona	loittoina
translative		loitoksi	loitoiksi
instructive		—	loitoin
abessive		loitotta	loitoitta
comitative		—	loittoine

Unlike positive, the comparative forms are used even in contemporary Finnish as adjectives.
Some comparative forms are used also as adverbs: loitommaksi, loitommalla, loitommalle, loitommalta, loitommas, loitompaa, loitompana.
The word loitto is used as modifier in some compound terms in the field of photography.