олио

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian olio, from Latin oleum, from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔlio]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔlio
• Syllabification^(key): о‧ли‧о
• Hyphenation^(key): олио

Noun

о́лио • (ólio) n

1. (loosely) any plant-based oil
   1. (chiefly) sunflower oil

      Synonym: (obsolete or archaic, from WWI onward) оли́вия (olívija)

   2. (obsolete) olive oil

      Synonyms: зехти́н (zehtín), зейти́н (zejtín)

Declension

Declension of о́лио

	singular	plural
indefinite	о́лио ólio	о́лиа ólia
definite	о́лиото ólioto	о́лиата óliata

References

• “олио”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “олио”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “о̀лио”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 858
• “олио”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, →ISBN, page 566