gaio

See also: Gaio

Galician

From Late Latin gaius (“jay”). Cognate with Spanish gayo, French geai, English jay.

gaio m (plural gaios)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gai (in analogy with its feminine version gaia), probably from Latin gaudium (“joy”), as borrowed from Old Occitan gai;^[1] alternatively of Germanic origin. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

gaio m (plural gaios)

gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gaios, feminine plural gaias)

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “gaio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gaio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gaio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “gayo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Possibly of Germanic origin, or from Latin vagus (“wandering, flighty, giddy”); likely of the same genesis as Old Occitan gai, whence cognate to French gai, Portuguese gaio and English gay. Cognate with Sicilian javiu.