"onto" meaning in All languages combined

See onto on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɒn.tuː/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tu/ [US], /ˈɑn.tu/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈɒn.tə/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tə/ [US], /ˈɑn.tə/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈɒn.tʊ/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tʊ/ [US], /ˈɑn.tʊ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-onto.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-onto.wav [US]
Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə Etymology: From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|on|to}} on + to, {{m|en|into}} into, {{noncog|stq|antou|t=up to}} Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} onto (not comparable)
  1. (mathematics, of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Mathematics Synonyms: surjective [mathematics, sciences] Related terms: one-to-one [mathematics, sciences], injective [mathematics, sciences], bijective [mathematics, sciences], unto
    Sense id: en-onto-en-adj-BZRC2Jai Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English prepositions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 37 0 43 Disambiguation of English prepositions: 31 29 16 24 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: on to (english: South Africa etc) [Australia, Canada, Commonwealth, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, including] [countries, geography, natural-sciences]

Preposition [English]

IPA: /ˈɒn.tuː/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tu/ [US], /ˈɑn.tu/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈɒn.tə/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tə/ [US], /ˈɑn.tə/ [cot-caught-merger], /ˈɒn.tʊ/ [UK], /ˈɔn.tʊ/ [US], /ˈɑn.tʊ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-onto.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-onto.wav [US]
Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə Etymology: From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|on|to}} on + to, {{m|en|into}} into, {{noncog|stq|antou|t=up to}} Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”) Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} onto, {{en-prep}} onto
  1. Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement). Translations (upon; on top of): ἐπί (epí) [with-accusative] (Ancient Greek), عَلَى (ʕalā) (Arabic), على (ʕala) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), عـ (ʕa) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), върху (vǎrhu) (Bulgarian), на (na) (Bulgarian), sur (note: with -n) (Esperanto), päälle [with-genitive] (Finnish), sur (French), auf (German), 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana) [with-accusative] (Gothic), על (al) (Hebrew), ofan á (Icelandic), á (Icelandic), adsur (Ido), ar (Irish), su (Italian), na (Lower Sorbian), ser (Northern Kurdish), subre (Occitan), sus (Occitan), sobre (Occitan), na (Polish), sobre (Portuguese), no [masculine] (Portuguese), na [feminine] (Portuguese), на (na) (Russian), sobre (Spanish), upp på (Swedish), üstünde (Turkish), üstüne (Turkish), ar (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-onto-en-prep-kwRSq9Rh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English prepositions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 37 0 43 Disambiguation of English prepositions: 31 29 16 24 Disambiguation of 'upon; on top of': 99 0 1
  2. (informal) Aware of. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-onto-en-prep-rXTr5DS8 Categories (other): English prepositions Disambiguation of English prepositions: 31 29 16 24
  3. (mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below). Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-onto-en-prep-bha2zysD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English prepositions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 37 0 43 Disambiguation of English prepositions: 31 29 16 24 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: on to (english: South Africa etc) [Australia, Canada, Commonwealth, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, including] [countries, geography, natural-sciences]

Noun [Mansaka]

Etymology: From untu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu. Etymology templates: {{inh|msk|poz-pro|*quntu}} Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu Head templates: {{head|msk|noun}} onto
  1. tooth
    Sense id: en-onto-msk-noun-lyLUpLWc Categories (other): Mansaka entries with incorrect language header

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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "surjective"
    },
    {
      "english": "South Africa etc",
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Canada",
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "including"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "countries",
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "on to"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Onto (mathematics)"
  ],
  "word": "onto"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "msk",
        "2": "poz-pro",
        "3": "*quntu"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From untu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "msk",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "onto",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mansaka",
  "lang_code": "msk",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mansaka entries with incorrect language header",
        "Mansaka lemmas",
        "Mansaka nouns",
        "Mansaka terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
        "Mansaka terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tooth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tooth",
          "tooth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "onto"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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