cielo

See also: cíelo, ĉielo, çielo, cięło, and Cielo

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• ciel

Etymology

Inherited from Old Navarro-Aragonese ciel, cielo, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjelo/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjelo/ (Benasquese)
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: cie‧lo

Noun

cielo m (plural cielos or ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

References

• “cielo”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎^[1], Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN
• “cielo”, in Ortografía de l’aragonés‎^[2], Zaragoza: Academia Aragonesa de la Lengua, 2023, →ISBN

Catacao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cielo (“sky”).

Noun

cielo

1. sky

References

• Urban, Matthias (2019), “The Tallán languages”, in Lost languages of the Peruvian north coast (Estudios Indiana)‎^[3], Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 73–96

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cielo (“sky”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cie‧lo

Noun

cielo

1. sky
2. heaven

Culli

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cielo (“sky”).

Noun

cielo

1. sky

References

• Martínez de Compañón, Baltasar Jaime (1782–1785), “PLAN que contiene 43. vozes Castellanas traducidas ãlas õcho lenguas que hablan los Yndios de la costa, Sierras, y Montañas del Obp̃do. de Trugillo del Perù”, in Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, Madrid

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto ĉielo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi̯elo/

Noun

cielo (plural cieli)

1. sky
2. heaven

Italian

Alternative forms

• celo (misspelling or literary, Rome, dated)

Etymology

From Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.lo/
• Homophone: celo
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: ciè‧lo

Noun

cielo m (plural cieli)

1. sky
2. heaven

Derived terms

• ci corre quanto dal cielo alla terra
• grattacielo
• muovere cielo e terra
• né in cielo né in terra
• santo cielo
• settimo cielo

Related terms

• celeste
• celestiale

Descendants

• → Esperanto: ĉielo
• → Lombard: ciel
• → Piedmontese: cel

Further reading

• cielo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• Celio, Oicle, celio, celiò, colei, liceo

Mirandese

Etymology

From Old Leonese cielo (compare Asturian cielu and Leonese cielu), from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̻jelu/ [ˈs̻je.lu] (Central)
• IPA^(key): /ˈs̻ilu/ [ˈs̻i.lu] (Sendinese)
• Rhymes: -elu (Central)
• Rhymes: -ilu (Sendinese)
• Syllabification: cie‧lo

Noun

cielo m (plural cielos)

1. sky
2. heaven

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃjeːlə]

Noun

cielo m

1. sky
2. heaven

References

• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “cielo”, in Schedario Napoletano

Old Navarro-Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sjelo/

Noun

cielo m

1. sky

Descendants

• Aragonese: cielo, ciel

References

• Nagore Laín, Francho (2021), Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 121

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• çielo

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sjelo/

Noun

cielo m (plural cielos)

1. sky, heavens
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 77v:

     Et la eſtrella ſiguient delas dos q̃ ſon en el ombro ſinieſtro del boitre uolant a poder en eſta piedra ⁊ della recibe ſu uertud. Et quãdo es en medio cielo, mueſtra eſta piedra mas manifieſta miente ſus obras.

     And the star following the two located in the left elbow of the flying vulture has power over this stone, which draws its virtue from it. And when it is in the center of the sky, this stone more manifestly shows its works.

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 94r.:

     […] ca todas an uertud et fuerça que reciben de dios por mano delos ſus ang͠ls ⁊ por uertud delos cielos ⁊ delas eſtrellas que en ellos ſon.

     For they all possess a virtue and strength which they receive from God at the hand of his angels and by virtue of the heavens and the stars in them.

2. (religion) heaven

Synonyms

• (heavens): firmamento m

Descendants

• Ladino: sielo
• Spanish: cielo
  • → Hiligaynon: sielo
  • → Papiamentu: shelu
  • → Paraguayan Guarani: yvága (“heaven”) (semantic loan)
  • → Catacao: cielo

Spanish

El cielo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cielo, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjelo/ [ˈθje.lo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjelo/ [ˈsje.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: cie‧lo

Noun

cielo m (plural cielos)

1. sky

   Synonym: firmamento

2. heaven

   Synonym: paraíso

Derived terms

• a cielo abierto
• a cielo descubierto
• árbol del cielo
• arco del cielo
• azul cielo
• caído del cielo
• cielo de la boca
• cielo raso
• clamar al cielo
• como caído del cielo
• como llovido del cielo
• conquistar el cielo
• descargar el cielo
• desgarrarse el cielo
• escupir al cielo
• ganar el cielo con rosario ajeno
• ganarse el cielo
• herir los cielos
• Hijo del Cielo
• irse al santo al cielo
• llovido del cielo
• mover cielo y tierra
• orinal del cielo
• poner el grito en el cielo
• rascacielos
• reino de los cielos
• séptimo cielo
• tocinillo de cielo
• tocino de cielo
• ver el cielo abierto
• volar al cielo
• voz del cielo

Related terms

• celeste (relational)
• celestial (relational)
• célico (relational)
• etéreo (relational)

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: sielo
• → Papiamentu: shelu
• → Paraguayan Guarani: yvága (“heaven”) (semantic loan)
• → Catacao: cielo

Further reading

• “cielo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “cielo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Anagrams

• liceo