Simo

Simo

2. A municipality of Lapland, Finland.

• IMOs, Isom, MOIs, OISM, miso, miso-, omis

• IPA^(key): /ˈsimo/, [ˈs̠imo̞]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification^(key): Si‧mo
• Hyphenation^(key): Si‧mo

Vernacular form of biblical Simon and Simeon, attested already in medieval sources.^[1]

Simo

1. a male given name

• (surnames) Similä, Simola, Simonen, Simpanen, Simula

• Simo is the 86^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 8,195 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,811 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Named after the lake Simojärvi. Possibly ultimately from dialectal Russian шима (šima, “tip”), or from Sami. First attested as Sim, Simaa in 1342.^[2]

Simo

1. (uncountable) Simo (a municipality of Lapland, Finland)

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Simo" is Simossa.

• Ismo

Clipping of Simone or Simona.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.mo/
• Homophone: simo
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: Sì‧mo

Simo m

1. a diminutive of the male given name Simone (“Simon”)

Simo f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Simona (“Simone”)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.mo]

Simō m sg (genitive Simōnis); third declension

1. a male given name, character in the play Mostellaria of Plautus

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sĭmo²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “2 Sĭmo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,443/3”
• “Simō²” on page 1,764/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Borrowed from Greek Σίμος (Símos).

Simo m (genitive/dative lui Simo)

1. a surname from Greek

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983), Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică