io

See also: Appendix:Variations of "io"

English

Etymology 1

From New 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 iō; 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. Akin to Catalan jo and Spanish yo.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ì‧o

Pronoun

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

1. I, the first person

Usage notes

• Italians avoid expressing personal pronouns both in written and spoken language, preferring to use just the inflected verb (an example would be: Am going for a walk, way more common than I am going for a walk; Is good-looking instead of She is good-looking). The explicit usage of personal pronouns may sound redundant to a native speaker, except when the purpose of the sentence is to specify the subject or the object (He is the one I was talking about).
• The second-person pronoun in particular can sound confidential and, in some cases, even impolite.

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Conjunctive	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

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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/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/, [ˈiː.ɔ]

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, je, j', i'

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], 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], 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 Latin and Old High German), 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-West Germanic *aiw, whence also Old English ā, Old Saxon eo, Old Norse ei, Old Dutch ēwa, io.

Adverb

io

1. always