dio

See also: Dio, DIO, dió, di'o, and dîo

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdio/
• Hyphenation: di‧o
• Rhymes: -io
• Audio:

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Noun

dio (accusative singular dion, plural dioj, accusative plural diojn)

1. a god

Derived terms

Terms derived from dio

• ĉefdio

• diino (“goddess”)

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Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiʀəm.

Noun

dio

1. oyster (mollusk)

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dì, Spanish día, ultimately from Latin diēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/

Noun

dio (plural dii)

1. day (24-hour period).

Derived terms

• dia
  • omnadia (“quotidian”)
  • singladia (“quotidian”)
• diala (“daily”)

• die
  • omnadie (“everyday, daily”)
  • singladie (“everyday, daily”)
  • uladie or uldie (“someday, some day”)
  • cadie or icadie (“this day, today”)
  • hodie (“today”)

• diopa (“daily, diurnal”)

See also

• jorno
• nokto

• (days of the week) dii di la semano; lundio, mardio, merkurdio, jovdio, venerdio, saturdio, sundio

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, [ˈd̪iːo]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: dì‧o

Etymology 1

From Latin deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deiuos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

Noun

dio m (plural dei, archaic plural dii, feminine dea)

1. god, deity
2. (informal) one who is remarkably skilled in something; ace, crackerjack, wiz

Synonyms

• (deity): divinità; (poetic) deità, divo, nume
• (ace, wiz): asso, campione, mago, mito

Derived terms

• Dio

Etymology 2

From Latin dius, alternate form of dīvus (“divine, godlike”).

Adjective

dio (feminine dia, masculine plural dii, feminine plural die) (obsolete, poetic)

1. bright, resplendent, shining (in a divine fashion)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIV, page 250:

     […] E io udi' nella luce più dia ¶ del minor cerchio una voce modesta, […]

     […] And I heard in the most resplendent light ¶ of the lesser circle a modest voice, […]

   • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia‎^[1], volume II: “Alla beata Diana Giuntini”, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 74:

     Pur risplendeva oltre il mortal costume ¶ La dia bellezza nel sereno viso, […]

     Yet beyond the mortal custom shone ¶ The shining beauty in the serene visage, […]

Synonyms

• brillante, lucente, luminoso, splendente

Anagrams

• iod
• odi

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Latin

Adjective

diō

1. dative masculine singular of dius
2. dative neuter singular of dius
3. ablative masculine singular of dius
4. ablative neuter singular of dius

References

• dio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): dȅo

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîo/
• Hyphenation: di‧o

Noun

dȉo m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о)

1. part

Declension

Declension of dio

	singular	plural
nominative	dȉo	dijélovi
genitive	dijéla	dijelova
dative	dijelu	dijelovima
accusative	dio	dijelove
vocative	dio	dijelovi
locative	dijelu	dijelovima
instrumental	dijelom	dijelovima

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• dió (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djo/

Verb

dio

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) preterite indicative form of dar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) preterite indicative form of dar.

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Turkish

Verb

dio

1. (Internet, sms) Alternative form of diyor

   Bana dio sen benim en yakınımsın.

   He (or she) tells me you are my closest relative.