cio

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Latin

Alternative forms

• cieō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.o]

Verb

ciō (present infinitive cīre); fourth conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. alternative form of cieō

Conjugation

References

• “cio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

ċīo f

1. alternative form of ċēo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cio, ceo, from Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos). Doublet of zelo, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iu, -iw
• Hyphenation: ci‧o

Noun

cio m (plural cios)

1. (uncountable) heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)

   Synonym: estro

   A gata está no cio. ― The cat is in heat.

Related terms

Further reading

• “cio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• cijȇl
• cȅo (Ekavian)
• ciel, cěl (obsolete, Croatia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sîo/
• Hyphenation: ci‧o

Adjective

cȉo (Cyrillic spelling ци̏о, definite cijȇlī, comparative cjȅljī)

1. whole
2. entire, complete

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjo/ [ˈθjo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjo/ [ˈsjo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: cio

Verb

cio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ciar

Swedish

Noun

cio c

1. alternative letter-case form of CIO (“chief information officer”)

Declension

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.o/

Verb

cio

1. (transitive) alternative form of co (“to see”)

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics