irio

English

Noun

irio (uncountable)

1. (Kenya) A Kenyan dish of mashed potatoes, maize, and other vegetables.
   • 2010, Barbara Sheen, Foods of Kenya, page 21:

     There are almost as many ways to prepare irio as there are Kenyan cooks. Irio almost always starts with potatoes, corn, and beans, but then Kenyan cooks add any number of other ingredients to the dish. Spinach, fried onions, vegetables, […]

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũrĩa (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ìɾiɔ̌ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.

Noun

irio class 8

1. food

Derived terms

• irio hĩu itiumaga mbũri

See also

• rĩgu

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ri.oː/, [ˈiːrioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ri.o/, [ˈiːrio]

Noun

īriō m or f (genitive īriōnis); third declension

1. a siliquose plant, probably a member of the genera Barbarea (wintercress or yellow rocket) or Sisymbrium (comprising several species of mustard and rocket)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:irio.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īriō	īriōnēs
Genitive	īriōnis	īriōnum
Dative	īriōnī	īriōnibus
Accusative	īriōnem	īriōnēs
Ablative	īriōne	īriōnibus
Vocative	īriō	īriōnēs

Synonyms

• (siliquose plant of Barbarea or Sisymbrium): erysimon, sisymbrium, vela

References

• “īrĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• īrĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 856/3.
• “Īriō” on page 966/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Verb

irio

1. first-person singular present indicative of iriar