adiós
English
Noun
adiós (plural adióses)
- Alternative spelling of adios.
- 1947, Hudson Strode, Now in Mexico, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 211:
- We began making our adióses.
- 1950, Martin M. Goldsmith, The Miraculous Fish of Domingo Gonzales, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, page 72:
- The virgins of the village, Rosalina ironically among them, circled and recircled the plaza clockwise, replying adiós to the adióses of the eligible young men who were circling and re-circling the plaza counter-clockwise.
- 1989, Barbara Faith, Capricorn Moon, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 59:
- As the adióses were said, Dan led Elizabeth around to the front of the wagon.
- 1994, Giles Tippette, Wilson’s Gold, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 63:
- We said our adióses and Chulo left, leaving me sitting, waiting, and drinking whiskey.
- 2010, Susan Froderberg, Old Border Road, Back Bay Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
- After a bit, she and Son say their adióses and head out the door and get into the pickup truck, and the two of them damned bandits just drive right off.
- 2019, Michael Curran, Connor Race: The Tontine Plot, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
- Okay, Jefe, I’ll get us a car while you two say your adióses.
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Verb
adiós (third-person singular simple present adióses, present participle adiósing, simple past and past participle adiósed)
- Alternative spelling of adios.
- 1994, The Iowa Review, page 29:
- Adiós, first-rate bagels and cream cheese and marmalade, fresh-squeezed juice and fresh-ground coffee, as we’ve adiósed already our fine firm king-size bed: […]
- 1996, Frances Williams, Unbroken Vows, Silhouette Books, →ISBN:
- Apparently deciding there might be more to this gringo than he was willing to deal with, the man adiósed.
- 2007, TV Guide, page 69:
- It was hard, but adiósing the drama-loving diva needed to be done.
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Aragonese
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Compare Asturian adiós, Asturian adiós, Catalan adéu, Low German atjüs, English adieu, Extremaduran adiós, French adieu, German tschüss, Greek αντίο (antío), Galician adeus, Italian addio, Maltese addiju, Mirandese adius, Occitan adieu, Portuguese adeus, Romanian adio, Serbo-Croatian ади̏о/adȉo, Slovene adȋjo, Spanish adiós.
Interjection
adiós
- goodbye
Asturian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Compare Aragonese adiós, Asturian adiós, Catalan adéu, Low German atjüs, English adieu, Extremaduran adiós, French adieu, German tschüss, Greek αντίο (antío), Galician adeus, Italian addio, Maltese addiju, Mirandese adius, Occitan adieu, Portuguese adeus, Romanian adio, Serbo-Croatian ади̏о/adȉo, Slovene adȋjo, Spanish adiós.
Interjection
adiós
- goodbye (farewell)
Catalan
Etymology
From Spanish adiós. Compare the native Catalan adéu.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ə.diˈos/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.diˈos/
- (Algherese) IPA(key): /a.diˈos/
Interjection
adiós
- (Alghero, Castilianism) goodbye
- Synonym: adéu
Noun
adiós m (plural adiosos)
- (Alghero, Castilianism) goodbye
- Synonym: adéu
Usage notes
This exists within Algherese in general use and also outside Algherese as a Castilianism, existing and seeing use in both cases alongside the native adéu.
Spanish
Etymology
a + Dios ("to God"), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”); compare Aragonese adiós, Asturian adiós, Catalan adéu, Low German atjüs, English adieu, Extremaduran adiós, French adieu, Galician adeus, German tschüss, Greek αντίο (antío), Italian addio, Maltese addiju, Mirandese adius, Occitan adieu, Portuguese adeus, Romanian adio, Serbo-Croatian ади̏о/adȉo, Slovene adȋjo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdjos/ [aˈð̞jos]
Audio (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -os
- Syllabification: a‧diós
Interjection
¡adiós!
- goodbye, farewell
Derived terms
- adiós Madrid, que te quedas sin gente
- adiosito
Descendants
- Papiamentu: ayó
- Catalan: adiós
- Chamicuro: alyos
- Garifuna: ayó
- English: adios
- Hiligaynon: adios
- Mopan Maya: dʼyoos
See also
- abur
- chao, chau
- hasta después
- hasta la vista
- hasta luego
- hasta mañana
- nos vemos
- adéu (Catalonia)
- salú (El Salvador)
Noun
adiós m (plural adioses)
- farewell; goodbye
Further reading
- “adiós”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- diosa