dio

See also: Dio, DIO, dió, dîo, and di0

Corsican

Noun

dio m (plural dii)

1. Alternative form of diu

References

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdio]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: di‧o

Noun

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

1. a god

Derived terms

• ĉefdio
• diino (“goddess”)

 

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *tio, from Proto-Oceanic *tiʀom, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiʀəm.

Noun

dio

1. oyster (mollusk)

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 (“every day, daily”)
  • singladie (“every day, 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 ^{(Category: io:Days of the week)}

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós, derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdi.o/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: dì‧o
• Though the modern standard prefers not to geminate the initial /d/, it is geminated in traditional pronunciation (as reflected by the usage of gli before dei) and the pronunciation in all the regional Italian varieties, excluding those that don't have syntactic gemination.

Noun

dio m (plural dei or (archaic or dialectal) dii, feminine dea, feminine plural dee)

1. god, deity

   Synonyms: divinità, (poetic) deità, divo, iddio, (literary) nume

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

   Synonyms: asso, campione, mago, mito

Derived terms

• Dio
• Iddio

Further reading

• dio² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin dīus, alternative form of dīvus (“divine, godlike”), from Proto-Indo-European *diwyós (“heavenly”), derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. bright, resplendent, shining (in a divine fashion)

   Synonyms: brillante, lucente, luminoso, splendente

   • 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, 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, […]

Further reading

• dio¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• iod, odi

Latin

Adjective

diō

1. dative/ablative masculine/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

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin deum, the accusative form of deus (“god”). Doublet of dios, which came from deus, the nominative form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/

Noun

dio m (plural dios)

1. god, deity
   • c. 1280, Alfonso X, General Estoria II, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, 2002, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     Et por esta ocasion podrie seer que desuiarien los uuestros fijos a los nuestros del temor de dio & del su seruicio.

   • c. 1280, Alfonso X, General Estoria II, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, 2002, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     […] crebantaua la ley en los sacrificios. & del maltraymiento contra ell. porque aorauan los dios agenos.

Descendants

• Ladino: dio

Romagnol

Etymology

Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dio m (plural dio)

1. god

References

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 181

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅo (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dȉo m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia) part

Declension

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

Declension of dio

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dió (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjo/ [ˈd̪jo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: dio

Verb

dio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of dar

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.