io

English Online Dictionary. What means io‎? What does io mean?

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English and Ido Ido

Symbol

io

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ido.

English

Etymology 1

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ, “Io”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

Noun

io (plural ios)

1. A type of moth, the io moth.

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

io

1. (rare) An exclamation of joy or triumph.

Anagrams

• -oi, OI, Oi, oi, oi!

Aromanian

Pronoun

io

1. Alternative form of iou (“I”)

Chuukese

Pronoun

io

1. who

Dutch

Alternative forms

• iö

Etymology

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

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: i‧o

Pronoun

io (accusative ion)

1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

Usage notes

• The plural forms ioj and iojn are nonstandard and rare.

Derived terms

• io ajn (“anything”)

See also

Interlingua

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian io.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

Pronoun

io

1. I

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

io (first-person singular, plural noi)

1. I

Declension

Italian

Alternative forms

• eo (archaic)
• jo (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: ì‧o

Pronoun

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

Usage notes

• Italian being a pro-drop language, subject pronouns are mostly omitted, both in the written and spoken language, as the inflected verb is conjugated by person. An example would be: Mangio una mela, which is much more common than Io mangio una mela, where the subject can be inferred from the inflected form mangio; similarly È carina instead of Lei è carina. The explicit usage of personal pronouns may sound redundant to a native speaker, except when it is used in order to emphasize the subject. (Io mangio una mela could be interpreted as I am eating an apple and you are not).

Descendants

• → Interlingua: io

See also

Japanese

Romanization

io

1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi.oː/, [ˈioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/, [ˈiːo]

Interjection

iō

1. an exclamation of joy: hurray, hurrah, yay
2. an exclamation of pain: oh, ah, alas
3. an exclamation for getting attention: hey, oi, look, quick

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “io”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Macanese

Etymology

Compare Kristang yo.

Pronoun

io

1. Alternative form of iou: I, me

   io sam ― I am

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

• i̯o

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

io

1. I

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• ijo, je
• ieo, j', i'

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/, /ˈiə/, /ˈjə/

Pronoun

io

1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

Coordinate terms

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1638: “volete che ci vada io” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

Adverb

io

1. always, every time, continuously
2. ever, at some point, sometime

Alternative forms

• ie

Further reading

• “ie”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

Descendants

• >? German: je

Romanian

Adverb

io

1. Obsolete form of iuo.

References

• io in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

Verb

io

1. (transitive) to marry

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• owó
• oghó, eghó

Etymology

Cognate with Nupe ewó, Edo ígho, Urhobo ígho

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /īó/, /ī.ɣó/

Noun

ió

1. (Ekiti) money, cowry

   Synonym: eó

Derived terms