Tho
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ðəʊ/
- US IPA: /ðoʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Origin 1
From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English Ã¾Ä ("the, those", plural.), from Proto-Germanic *þai ("those"), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só ("that").
Origin 2
From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English Ã¾Ä ("then, when"), from Proto-Germanic *þa- ("that"), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só ("that").
Adverb
tho
- (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare
Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe
Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.
Conjunction
- (dialectal) When.
Origin 3
American English; Alteration of though.
Adverb
tho- (informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of though
- 2009 , John Hough , Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg Chapter , I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, …