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Ivo
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Appendix:Variations of "ivo"
English
Etymology
Latinate form of a medieval name of en fro - origin, from en gem-pro *īhwaz yew, bow. Name of French and English saints. Cognate with modern fr Yves.
Pronunciation
en /ˈaɪvəʊ/
Proper noun
en male Germanic languages.
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Usage notes
Used in medieval England, but rarer as a given name today. Modern American bearers of this name may be of Slavic origin. Also still used to translate the names of pre-modern figures named fr Yves.
Related terms
en Ives
en Ivor
en Yvette
en Yvonne
Translations
male given name
Esperanto: eo Ivo
Estonian: et Ivo
French: fr Yves
Italian: it Ivo
Latvian: lv Ivo
Portuguese: pt Ivo
Anagrams
en iov VOI Voi OVI vio VoI ovi-
Czech
cs:
Etymology
Cognate to French Yves, and also a variant of cs Ivan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m-an
cs male
Declension
m.an
Estonian
Etymology
Short form of et Ivar and, less often, of et Ivan.
Proper noun
et proper noun
et male
Related terms
et Aivar, et Aivo, et Ivar, et Ivari
Ingrian
Etymology
From izh Ivana John -o denominal. Akin to et Ivo.
Pronunciation
Ivoj
Noun
izh noun
izh male Ivana
Declension
v v
References
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Italian
Etymology
Cognate to English Ivo and French Yves.
Pronunciation
Ìvo
Proper noun
m
it male
Anagrams
it iov Vio Voi ovi- voi
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1962. Shortened from lv Ivars, also cognate to en Ivo, with ultimately the same lv gem meaning "yew, bow (of yew)".
Proper noun
lv proper noun m
lv male
Related terms
lv Ivars, lv Aivars
lv Iveta
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Ivo was the only given name of 2324 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Portuguese
Etymology
Two possible origins:
Latinate form of a medieval name of pt fro - origin, from pt gem-pro *īhwaz yew, bow. Name of French and English saints. Cognate with fr Yves.
Short form of pt Ivan. pt João Ian Jean Ruan Geovane, all equivalents to English en John.
Pronunciation
pt ivu 2
pt I vo
Proper noun
m + +
pt male
Derived terms
pt Adão e Ivo
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
A hypocoristic form of sh Ivan.
Pronunciation
Ívo
Proper noun
Ívo m-an
sh male
Slovak
Proper noun
m-pr Ivko
sk male
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