coとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kō, IPA: /kəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: kō, IPA: /koʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

語源 1

名詞

co (plural cos)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of company.

別の表記

• co., Co, Co.

派生語

• newco
• yield co

語源 2

Coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970; in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.

代名詞

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

1. (nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: A Documentary Study of Twin Oaks Community:

     Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

   • 1996, Beemyn, Brett; Elianon, Mickey, Queer studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 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 and different terms in a Euro-American cultural context than in other racial and ethnic contexts.

   • 2004 April 1, Pieira dos Lobos, “Fern's Story two”, in 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. (nonstandard) Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

派生語

• cos
• coself

参照

参考

• co-wash (etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

• Oc, O. C., oc, Oc., O.C., OC

接尾辞

-co (proper noun-forming suffix)

1. Used to construct company names that borrow meaning from the root word.

参考

• Co.
• -ex

語源 1

Declined forms of -cus (adjectival suffix).

接尾辞

-cō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of -cus

語源 2

Declined forms of -cum (nominal suffix).

接尾辞

-cō n

1. dative/ablative singular of -cum

アナグラム

• Oc, O. C., oc, Oc., O.C., OC

使用する際の注意点

• (medicine): Frequently used in the notes taken by a doctor during a medical encounter.

別の表記

• (care of): ℅, c/-

名詞

c/o (plural c/o's or c/os)

1. (shipping) Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin.

別の表記

• C/O
• CO

参考

• d/o (“daughter of”)
• s/o (“son of”)

アナグラム

• Oc, O. C., oc, Oc., O.C., OC