io

See also: Appendix:Variations of "io"

English

Etymology 1

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “Io”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəʊ/

Noun

io (plural ios)

1. A type of moth, the io moth.
   • 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious

     These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.

Etymology 2

From Latin; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “oh!”).

Interjection

io

1. (rare) An exclamation of joy or triumph.
   • 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4‎^[1], University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:

     Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
     O Pan! Io Pan!
     Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
     In the grip of the snake.

Anagrams

• -oi, OI, Oi, oi, oi!

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• eu, iou

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Romanian eu.

Pronoun

io

1. (first-person singular pronoun) I
2. me

Related terms

• mini/mine
• mi
• (a) njeu/(a) meu

See also

• tu, tini
• el/elu, nãs
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj

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Chuukese

Pronoun

io

1. who

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• iö

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin io, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ). Doublet of jo.

Interjection

io

1. (dated) io (exclamation of triumph)

Further reading

• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “io”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

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Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -o (correlative suffix of objects).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈio/
• Hyphenation: i‧o
• Rhymes: -io
• Audio:

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Pronoun

io (plural ioj, accusative singular ion, accusative plural iojn)

1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

Derived terms

• io ajn (“anything”)

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

Pronoun

io

1. I

   Io te ama.

   I love you.

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Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo (compare Romanian eu and Italian io); from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

io (first-person singular, plural noi)

1. I

Declension

nominative		io
accusative	stressed	mire
	unstressed	me (m')
dative	stressed	mi
	unstressed	âm
genitive	masc. sg.	meu/mev
	fem. sg.	me
	masc. pl.	meľ
	fem. pl.	mele

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Italian

Alternative forms

• jo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Italian eo, from Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Near cognates include French je, Portuguese eu, Romanian eu, and Spanish yo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/, [ˈiːo], (in fast speech) [ˈio̯]

• Audio

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• Stress: ìo
• Hyphenation: io

Pronoun

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

1. I, the first person

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Locative	Genitive	Disjunctive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			—		me
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti					te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	lui, sé
		f 1	lei, Lei1		la, l', La1, -la	le3, Le1, -le			lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			—		noi
	second	—1	voi, Voi1	vi, v', -vi, Vi1					voi, Voi1
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, -li	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	loro, Loro1, sé
		f 1			le, -le
1	The feminine gender third person forms and second plural person forms are also used as formal terms of address referring to second singular person subjects, sometimes capitalised as Lei, Vi, Loro etc. to distinguish them.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard).

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Japanese

Romanization

io

1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

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Latin

Etymology

Echoic; compare Greek ἰώ (iṓ), or English yo.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.oː/

Interjection

iō

1. An exclamation of joy or pain, or for getting one's attention.

References

• io in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• io in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• io in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• io in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• io in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• io in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• ijo, ieo

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego. Compare Italian io.

Pronoun

io

1. I, the first-person singular nominative pronoun

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)			éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz.

Adverb

io

1. always, every time, continuously
   • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎^[3] (in German), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69:

     Duncla uuerthin ougon iro that sia ne gesian in rukgi iro io an crumbe.

     May their eyes be blinded so they (can) not see, and may their back keep getting bent!

   • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎^[4] (in German), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 71:

     An thi sang min io.

     For you is always my song.

2. ever, at some point, sometime
   • 1971, Willy Sanders, editor, (Expositio) Willerammi Eberspergensis abbatis in canticis canticorum. Die Leidener Handschrift. (Kleine deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters; 9)‎^[5] (in blend of Old High German and Latin, München: Wilhelm Fink, page 52:

     So wer ouch thurgh godes willan thiro wereld arbeyde muothe, wie magh her ie ze meeron ruowan cuman, thanne thaz her uollecume 'ad fontem totius boni'?

     And whoever by God's will is tired by the burdens of the world, how can he ever attain peace better than that he reaches the source of all good?

Alternative forms

• ie

Further reading

• “ie”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz, whence also Old Norse ei

Adverb

io

1. always