dio
Corsican
Noun
dio m (plural dii)
- Alternative form of diu
References
- http://infcor.adecec.net/
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian dio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdio]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: di‧o
Noun
dio (accusative singular dion, plural dioj, accusative plural diojn)
- a god
Derived terms
- ĉefdio
- diino (“goddess”)
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *tio, from Proto-Oceanic *tiʀom, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiʀəm.
Noun
dio
- oyster (mollusk)
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian dì, Spanish día, ultimately from Latin diēs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/
Noun
dio (plural dii)
- day (24-hour period).
Derived terms
- dia
- omnadia (“quotidian”)
- singladia (“quotidian”)
- diala (“daily”)
- die
- omnadie (“everyday, daily”)
- singladie (“everyday, daily”)
- uladie or uldie (“someday, some day”)
- cadie or icadie (“this day, today”)
- hodie (“today”)
- diopa (“daily, diurnal”)
See also
- jorno
- nokto
- (days of the week) dii di la semano; lundio, mardio, merkurdio, jovdio, venerdio, saturdio, sundio (Category: io:Days of the week)
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós, derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/, (traditional) */ˈdi.o/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: dì‧o
- Though the modern standard prefers not to geminate the initial /d/, it is geminated in traditional pronunciation (as reflected by the usage of gli before dei) and the pronunciation in all the regional Italian varieties, excluding those that don't have syntactic gemination.
Noun
dio m (plural dei or (archaic or dialectal) dii, feminine dea, feminine plural dee)
- god, deity
- Synonyms: divinità, (poetic) deità, divo, iddio, (literary) nume
- (informal) one who is remarkably skilled in something; ace, crackerjack, wiz
- Synonyms: asso, campione, mago, mito
Derived terms
- Dio
- Iddio
Further reading
- dio2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
From Latin dīus, alternate form of dīvus (“divine, godlike”), from Proto-Indo-European *diwyós (“heavenly”), derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: dì‧o
Adjective
dio (feminine dia, masculine plural dii, feminine plural die) (obsolete, poetic)
- bright, resplendent, shining (in a divine fashion)
- Synonyms: brillante, lucente, luminoso, splendente
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIV, page 250:
- […] E io udi' nella luce più dia ¶ del minor cerchio una voce modesta, […]
- […] And I heard in the most resplendent light ¶ of the lesser circle a modest voice, […]
- 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia, volume II: “Alla beata Diana Giuntini”, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 74:
- Pur risplendeva oltre il mortal costume ¶ La dia bellezza nel sereno viso, […]
- Yet beyond the mortal custom shone ¶ The shining beauty in the serene visage, […]
Further reading
- dio1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- iod, odi
Latin
Adjective
diō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dius
References
- “dio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “dio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Spanish
Etymology
Changed from dios to underline the oneness of God.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdio/
Noun
dio m (plural dioses)
- (Judaism) Alternative form of dios
Descendants
- Ladino: dio
Proper noun
dio m
- (Judaism) Alternative form of dios
Romagnol
Etymology
Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dio m (plural dio)
- god
References
- Masotti, Adelmo (1999) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano (in Italian), Zanichelli
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ekavian): dȅo
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dîo/
- Hyphenation: di‧o
Noun
dȉo m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о)
- (Bosnia, Croatia) part
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | dȉo | dijélovi |
genitive | dijéla | dijelova |
dative | dijelu | dijelovima |
accusative | dio | dijelove |
vocative | dio | dijelovi |
locative | dijelu | dijelovima |
instrumental | dijelom | dijelovima |
Spanish
Alternative forms
- dió (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjo/ [ˈd̪jo]
- Rhymes: -o
- Syllabification: dio
Verb
dio
- third-person singular preterite indicative of dar
Turkish
Verb
dio
- (Internet, sms) Alternative form of diyor
- Bana dio sen benim en yakınımsın.
- He (or she) tells me you are my closest relative.