Otto

Otto

See also: otto, òtto, Ottó, -otto, and öttö

English

Etymology

From German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Edward, etc.).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑtoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒtəʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
• Homophones: auto (in accents with the cot-caught merger), otto

Proper noun

Otto (countable and uncountable, plural Ottos or Ottoes)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A surname from the Germanic languages
3. A place in the United States
   1. An unincorporatedcommunity in Clark County, Indiana.
   2. A town in Cattaraugus County, New York.
   3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Macon County, North Carolina.
   4. An unincorporatedcommunity in Roane County, West Virginia.
   5. An unincorporatedcommunity in Big Horn County, Wyoming.

Derived terms

• Otto Creek
• Otto cycle
• Otto Pass

 

Descendants

• Translingual: Ottoia, Ottoiidae

Translations

male given name

Bengali: অটো (bn) (ôṭo) Czech: Oto (cs) m, Ota (cs) m Danish: Otto Estonian: Otto (et) Finnish: Otto (fi) Georgian: ოტო (oṭo) German: Otto (de) Greek: Όθωνας (el) m (Óthonas), Όθων (el) m (Óthon) Greenlandic: Ortu Icelandic: Ottó (is) m Latvian: Oto m Norwegian: Otto (no) Old English: Ēad Polish: Otton (pl) m Portuguese: Oto m, Otto m Russian: О́тто (ru) m (Ótto) Slovakian: Oto Swedish: Otto (sv)

See also

• auto
• auto-

 

Anagrams

• Toto, toot, toto

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Danish

Etymology

From German Otto.

Proper noun

Otto

1. a male given name

Related terms

• (surnames) Ottosen

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 23 647 males with the given name Otto have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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Estonian

Etymology

From German Otto.

Proper noun

Otto

1. a male given name from German, equivalent to English Otto

Related terms

• Ott
• Udo

 

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Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from German Otto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔʰtːʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʰtːʊ
• Homophone: áttu

Proper noun

Otto m

1. a male given name

Usage notes

Patronymics

• son of Otto: Ottosson
• daughter of Otto: Ottosdóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Otto
Accusative	Otto
Dative	Otto
Genitive	Ottos

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Finnish

Etymology

From German Otto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈotːo/, [ˈo̞t̪ːo̞]
• Rhymes: -otːo
• Syllabification^(key): Ot‧to

Proper noun

Otto

1. a male given name
   • 1958, Paavo Rintala, Pojat, Otava, published 2000, →ISBN, page 185:

     —Minun nimi Otto.
     Otto on suomalainenkin nimi.
     —Jaa minä tiedä, kansainvälinen, überall Otto-nimi...

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 2014, Tanja Pohjola, Lintu pieni, Atena, →ISBN, page 13:

     Dorotean huulet liikkuivat, kun hän toisti aviomiehensä nimen, mutta se ei saanut häntä tuntemeen mitään. Nimi niin kuin mikä tahansa. Eikö sen olisi pitänyt läikyttää häntä, saada vedet valumaan yli? Mutta Otto, miten yksinkertainen nimi. Ei tietoakaan siitä, miten paljon enemmän elämä voi olla kuin kaksi konsonanttia ja kaksi vokaalia.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 2014, Heikki Turunen, Karjalan kuningas, WSOY, →ISBN, page 12:

     Toisen kerran äiti epäili päähänpinttymän syyksi Onnelan Viijaa, kuvanveistäjää, joka oli Impan rotinoilla nauranut ja sanonut minua, nimen kuultuaan, kuningas Otoksi, Saksaa joskus todella hallinneen sennimisen kuninkaan mukaan.

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2. The letter "O" in the Finnish tavausaakkoset, a spelling system similar to ICAO spelling alphabet.

Declension

Inflection of Otto (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation)
nominative		Otto	Otot
genitive		Oton	Ottojen
partitive		Ottoa	Ottoja
illative		Ottoon	Ottoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Otto	Otot
accusative	nom.	Otto	Otot
	gen.	Oton
genitive		Oton	Ottojen
partitive		Ottoa	Ottoja
inessive		Otossa	Otoissa
elative		Otosta	Otoista
illative		Ottoon	Ottoihin
adessive		Otolla	Otoilla
ablative		Otolta	Otoilta
allative		Otolle	Otoille
essive		Ottona	Ottoina
translative		Otoksi	Otoiksi
instructive		—	Otoin
abessive		Ototta	Otoitta
comitative		—	Ottoineen

Possessive forms of Otto (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Ottoni	Ottomme
2nd person	Ottosi	Ottonne
3rd person	Ottonsa

Anagrams

• otot, toto

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German

Etymology

Short form of Old High German compound names beginning with the element ōt (“riches”), such as Ottokar and Otmar, from Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“treasure”). Name of a 10th century German emperor.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Otto

1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Oda, Odilia, Ottilie, Uta, or Ute; variant form Udo

Proper noun

Otto m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Ottos or (with an article) Otto, feminine genitive Otto, plural Ottos)

1. Otto: a surname originating as a patronymic

Related terms

• Ottonen
• Otto Normalverbraucher

 

Descendants

• → English: Otto
  • Translingual: Ottoia
    • Translingual: Ottoiidae
• → Czech: Oto, Ota
• → Danish: Otto
• → Faroese: Otto
• → Finnish: Otto
• → Icelandic: Otto
• → Latvian: Oto
• → Norwegian: Otto
• → Polish: Otton
• → Portuguese: Otto, Oto
• → Slovak: Oto
• → Swedish: Otto

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Norwegian

Etymology

From German Otto.

Proper noun

Otto

1. a male given name

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Otto m

1. a male given name, variant of Oto, equivalent to English Otto

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Swedish

Etymology

From German Otto.

Proper noun

Otto c (genitive Ottos)

1. a male given name