immo

== French == === Etymology === Clipping of immobilisation. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.mo/ === Noun === immo f (plural immos) (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 (mắ). 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) (negative) on the contrary, nay (rather), no indeed (reinforcing negative) actually, what is more, even (often strengthened by edepol, hercle, ecastor, vero, potius, etc.) Synonym: revera ==== Descendants ==== === 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 Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. II. p. 726. === 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.