indio

See also: Indio and índio

English

Alternative forms

Indio, índio

Etymology

From Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.

Noun

indio (plural indios)

1. A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 108:

     On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdio/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: in‧di‧o

Noun

indio (uncountable, accusative indion)

1. indium

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindjʊ/

Etymology 1

Adjective

indio (feminine india, masculine plural indios, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (of or relating to India)

   Synonym: hindú

2. Indian (of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas)

Noun

indio m (plural indios, feminine india, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (person from India)

   Synonym: hindú

2. Indian; Native American

Related terms

• India

Etymology 2

Noun

indio m (uncountable)

1. indium

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.djo/
• Rhymes: -indjo
• Hyphenation: ìn‧dio

Noun

indio m (plural indi or indios, feminine india)

1. Indian, Native American

   Synonyms: nativo americano, amerindio, indiano

Noun

Chemical element
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indio m (invariable)

1. (chemistry) indium

Related terms

• indaco

Anagrams

• nidio

Latin

Noun

indiō

1. dative/ablative singular of indium

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindjo/ [ˈĩn̪.d̪jo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -indjo
• Syllabification: in‧dio

Etymology 1

From India (“India”).

Adjective

indio (feminine india, masculine plural indios, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (from India)
2. Indian, Native American
3. (historical, archaic) Spanish colonial racial term for a native of the East Indies (i.e. lands beyond India looking from the west)

Derived terms

• ánsar indio
• bejuco de indio
• cobra india
• elefante indio
• fila india
• rinoceronte indio

 

Noun

indio m (plural indios, feminine india, feminine plural indias)

1. a native of India
2. a Native American
3. (historical, archaic) a native of the Philippines, as part of the Spanish East Indies

Derived terms

• hierba del indio
• indio viejo
• pluma de indio

 

Etymology 2

From índigo.

Noun

indio m (uncountable)

1. indium

Further reading

• “indio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014