immo

See also: Immo and -immo

French

Etymology

Clipping of immobilisation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mo/

Noun

immo f (plural immos)

1. (accounting, informal) fixed asset

   Synonym: immobilisation

Latin

Alternative forms

• imō

Etymology

May be for *ipsimō, from ipse. Otherwise the ablative singular of īmus with unexpected geminate /mm/, or conflated therewith.

Some comparativists, including Götze & Pedersen (1934) and more recently Kimball (1999) and Kloekhorst (2008), have compared Hittite 𒅎𒈠 (im-ma, “truly, really, indeed”) and Luwian 𒅎𒈠 (im-ma), hieroglyphic [script needed] (ima, “indeed”). The details of this connection are unclear at best, but if valid it would point to common inheritance from Proto-Indo-European. E.g., Kimball suggests to reconstruct *im-moh₂, comparing the second element with Ancient Greek μᾰ́ (má). A major problem with this etymology is that the preservation of the geminate /mm/ all the way from PIE to Classical Latin is an unknown phenomenon.

Adverb

immō (not comparable)

1. (affirmative) aye, yes of course, certainly, indeed, instead
2. (negative) to the contrary, in no way, by no means
3. (reinforcing) yes, what is more, even
   • vīvit? immō in senātum venit;
   • "Is he alive? Yes, and what is more he is coming into the Senate!"

Descendants

• Sardinian: emmo

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “immō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 300
• Götze, Albrecht & Pedersen, Holger (1934) Muršilis Sprachlächmung (= Danske Vidensk. Selskab, hist.-filol. Meddelelser 21/1), København.
• Kimball, Sara E. (1999) Hittite Historical Phonology. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “imma”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384

Further reading

• “immo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “immo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• immo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.