Oslo

From Norwegian Oslo, from Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. Another theory is that it comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely. The second element is ló f or n (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (compare the suffix -ley in English place-names).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒzləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑzloʊ/, /ˈɑsloʊ/

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Oslo

2. A county and municipality, the capital city of Norway. Formerly called Christiania and Kristiania.
3. A tiny city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States.

• Oslo syndrome
• Osloite

• Oslo paper

• Loos, OOLs, loos, sloo, solo, sool

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Osloër
• Osloos

• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɔz.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɔz.lu]

Oslo m

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): [ˈoslo]

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Oslo n (relational adjective osloský or oselský) or less commonly
Oslo n (indeclinable, relational adjective osloský or oselský, demonym Oslan)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• “Oslo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Oslo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Oslo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Ansloo, Anslo, Ansloe

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.loː/

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• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Oslo n

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Christiania

• loos

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/

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• Rhymes: -oslo
• Hyphenation: O‧slo

Oslo (accusative Oslon)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Norvegio

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Oslo ?

1. (official) alternative form of Ósló

From Norwegian Oslo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/, [ˈo̞s̠lo̞]
• Rhymes: -oslo
• Syllabification^(key): Os‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): Os‧lo

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• oslolainen (“Osloite”)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.slo/

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔsloː/

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Oslo n (proper noun, genitive Oslos or (optionally with an article) Oslo)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): [ˈosloː]
• Hyphenation: Os‧lo
• Homophone: oszló
• Rhymes: -loː

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• oslói

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔz.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔzlo
• Hyphenation: Ò‧slo

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• solo

Oslo ? ({{{2}}} declension)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló, first part from áss (“a god in Norse mythology”) + last part from ló (“meadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊslʊ/, /ˈʊʃlʊ/, [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊ]

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• Rhymes: -ʊslʊ, -ʊʃlʊ
• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
2. Oslo (a city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States)
3. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States)
4. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States)

• Christiania, Kristiania (“former names of the capital of Norway”)

• “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

• solo

• Åslo (obsolete)
• Ósló (nonstandard spelling, dialectal)

From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. The name Ósló then comes from older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo and Latin Ansloa), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f,^[1][2] *lauhaz m (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.^[3]

Another theory is that the first part comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for ó- found in Ósló. The geologist Tom V. Segalstad has claimed that it comes from Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), based on the Danicised spelling Opsloe.^[4] However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have -n- to signify a nasal vowel, which ufs would not have.

Cognates include Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, Dutch Ansloo and (also Low German) Anslo, and Latin Ansloa, Asloa, Osloa (Latinisations).

Between 1624 and 1925, Oslo referred to the old town of Oslo, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king Christian IV of Denmark named the new city Christiania (later spelling: Kristiania) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to Oslo in 1925. The location of the old town got the name Gamlebyen (literally “Old Town”), now a neighbourhood in the modern city.

• IPA^(key): /²uslu/, [ˈǔ̞s.lû̞], (Rogaland) [ˈû̞s.lû̞], (parts of Trøndelag) [ˈú̞s.lǔ̞]
• (East Norway) IPA^(key): /²uʂlu/, [ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞], [ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞] (phonemic respelling: Orslo^[5])

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• (Setesdal) IPA^(key): [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]
• Rhymes: -slu, -ʃlu
• Hyphenation: Ós‧ló, Ó‧sló

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
   • 1912, Ivar Aasen, “Um Namnet Oslo”, in Skrifter i samling, page 204:

     Han berre klagar paa det, at Namnet sidan vardt burtskutlat, med di at Kong Kristian IV i Aaret 1624 «hadde det uheppne Innfallet at umbyta det eldgamle ærverdige Namnet Oslo med det nye, sjølvuppfundne og halvbarbariske Namn Christiania». […] Og detta er vel ogso den rettaste Synsmaaten.

     His [P. A. Munch’s] only complaint was that the name was later thrown away, as king Christian IV in the year 1624 “had the unfortunate idea of switching out the old honourable name Oslo with the new, self-invented and half-barbaric name Christiania”. […] And this is probably also the most correct way to look at it.

   • 2000, “Hytta I Oslo [Cabin In oslo]”:

     Folk kjøper seg hytta på Geilo og Gol. Dei vil stå litt på slalåm og slikka litt sol. Eg kjenne det krible, eg har eit begjær: Eg vil ha hytta i Oslo; det er der eg vil vær.

     People buy cabins in Geilo and Gol. They want to stand on slalom and lick some sun. I feel it tingle, I have a lust: I want a cabin in Oslo; there is where I want to be.

2. (historical) a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway

   Synonym: (modern name) Gamlebyen

   • 1900, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Steinar Schjøtt, Kongesogur [Kings’ sagas]:

     Kong Harald lét byggja ein kaupstad aust i Oslo, og sat der tidt; for de var godt for tilførst der, og de var rike bygdir umkring.

     King Harald had built a merchant town in the East at Oslo, where he often resided; for there was good supply from the extensive cultivated district wide around.

3. ellipsis of Oslo bispedøme (“Diocese of Oslo”)

   bisp i Oslo ― bishop in (the Diocese of) Oslo

• (demonyms): osloborgar, oslobu, osloensar, osloværing

• Christiania, Kristiania (former names of Norway’s capital city)
• lo (“a meadow, often by the water”)
• ås (“a god, one of the Æsir”)

• “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

• solo

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.slɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔslɔ
• Syllabification: O‧slo

Oslo n (indeclinable, related adjective oslowski)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital and largest city of Norway)

• Oslo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Oslo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oslo in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

• Hyphenation: Os‧lo

Oslo ?

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): /ôslo/

Ȍslo n (Cyrillic spelling О̏сло)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔslɔ]

Oslo n (genitive singular Osla, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• It is sometimes also undeclined.

• Osločan m
• Osločanka f
• osloský

• “Oslo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːslɔ/

Óslo m inan

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Óslo
genitive	Ósla
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Óslo
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ósla
dative (dajȃlnik)	Óslu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Óslo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Óslu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Óslom

• Óselčan / Óselčanka
• óselški

• “Oslo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Oslo”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈoslo/ [ˈos.lo]
• Rhymes: -oslo
• Syllabification: Os‧lo

Oslo f

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): /²ʊslʊ/

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Oslo n (genitive Oslos)

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• IPA^(key): /osɫo/

Oslo

1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

• Oslolu (“a person from Oslo”)