lo
Portuguese, pronoun
lo is spelled L-O (2 letters) and appears 295 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lo is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ló is a different word: “luff (windward side of a ship)”.
What does lo mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
alternative form of o (third-person masculine singular objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary
Contá-lo (contar)
noun
- 1
masculineluff (windward side of a ship)
noun
- 1
masculinea type of thin fabric
noun
- 1
masculinegong (Chinese percussion instrument)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lado de uma embarcação que fica exposto ao vento 2. parte da embarcação onde se amuram as velas 3. metade da embarcação dividida longitudinalmente 4. espécie de tecido bastante leve
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lo
- lós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lo in Portuguese?
lo appears 295 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).