Oto
noun
a member of a Siouan-speaking tribe of North American Indians who formerly inhabited the lower Missouri River basin and now live in Oklahoma.
Oto
1 American
[oh-toh]
/ ˈoʊ toʊ /
Or
Otoe
noun
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Otos,
plural
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Oto
plural
oto-
2
American
oto-
British
combining form
Usage
What does oto- mean? Oto- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “ear.” It is often used in medical terms, especially in anatomy and pathology. Oto- comes from the Greek oûs, meaning “ear.” Related to the Greek oûs is English’s own word ear; so is the Latin word for ear, auris, which is the ultimate source of such words as aural. Learn more about oûs at our entry for otic, an adjective used in anatomy meaning “of or relating to the ear.”What are variants of oto-?When combined with words or word elements that begin with a vowel, oto- becomes ot-, as in otitis.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of oto-
< Greek ōto-, combining form of oûs ear 1
Example Sentences
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Fort Calhoun traces its roots to a meeting between explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Oto and Missouri tribes in August 1804 — 63 years before Nebraska became a state.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
In a different movie, the answer would become clear in an eruption of melodramatic fireworks; instead, Kafuku slips out unnoticed and doesn’t tell Oto what he’s seen — not using words, anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
In addition, there are many narrative threads that emphasize the power of storytelling, from an idea Oto is creating for television, to multiple productions of "Uncle Vanya," to Misaki's tales about her late mother.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2021
Last month she settled in for a few days at Café Oto in London, working with English partners including the pianist Alexander Hawkins, the trumpeter Byron Wallen and the electronics artist Leafcutter John.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2016
This tribe, which for many years has been consolidated with the Oto, has at least three gentes.
From Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey
He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then after Leda to my vision came the wife of Aloeus, Iphimedeia, proud that she once had held the flowing sea and borne him sons, thunderers for a day, the world-renowned Otos and Ephialtes.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Among the Otos, as part of the sign with the same meaning, both hands are raised to the side of the head, and the extended indices pressing the temples.
By a general agreement the Otos, Joway, Fox, and Saukie Indians hunt this country in common.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
Boteler, United States Indian service, collected from the Otos at the Oto Agency, Nebraska, during 1879-'80.
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