Etymology From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.
When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
Etymology From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.
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Archaic, Dialectal Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
With that ran there a route of ratones at ones, And smale mys myd hem, mo then a thousandec. 1380, William Langland, Piers Plowman:
Nether durste eny man from that daye forth axe hym eny moo questions.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:
mo
symbol
Etymology Clipping of month.
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month
12 yr 4 mo 17 d
mo
noun
Etymology Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.
The Idaho prison is full of cho-mos (child molesters), mos (molesters), and all types of sexual predators that have engaged in some type of abnormal sexual acts.2018, James Kühnel, Carceration State: