Chao

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See also: chao, chāo, cháo, chǎo, chào, chão, and cha0

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from (the Wade–Giles romanization of) Mandarin 趙／赵 (Zhào).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Chao

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Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From chao (“plain”), from Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃao̯/, /ˈt͡ʃaw/

Proper noun

Chao m

  1. a large number of villages and places in Galicia
  2. a toponymical surname

References

  • “Chao” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “Chao” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Chao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Latin

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) Chaō

  1. ablative singular of Chaos
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