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dio

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dibo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dibo terms
• IPA(key): /dio/ [d̪i.o]
• Rhymes: -io, -o
• Hyphenation: di‧o

dio (masculine allocutive ziok, feminine allocutive zion)

1. third-person singular, with third-person singular indirect object and singular direct object, present indicative of izan (transitive auxiliary)

dio (masculine allocutive ziok, feminine allocutive ziona)

1. third-person singular, with third-person singular direct object, present indicative of esan and erran (“to say”)

dio m (plural dii)

1. alternative form of diu

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

Borrowed from Italian dio.

• IPA(key): /ˈdio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: di‧o

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

1. a god

• ĉefdio

• diino (“goddess”)

• “dio”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

• “dio”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

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

dio

1. rock oyster, specifically crenulate rock oyster (Saccostrea mordax), usually found around mangroves
   E dredre me dolava na dio.
   The rock oyster is hard to open.

• rabe dio (“tagalong, hanger-on, follower (of workers)”, literally “kicks oysters”)

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “dio”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 67

Borrowed from Italian dì, Spanish día, ultimately from Latin diēs.

• IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/

dio (plural dii)

1. day (24-hour period).

• dia

  • omnadia (“quotidian”)
  • singladia (“quotidian”)

• diala (“daily”)

• die

  • cadie, icadie (“this day, today”)
  • hodie (“today”)
  • omnadie (“every day, daily”)
  • singladie (“every day, daily”)
  • uladie, uldie (“someday, some day”)

• diopa (“daily, diurnal”)

• jorno

• nokto

• days of the week: **dii di la semano (appendix): lundio · mardio · merkurdio · jovdio · venerdio · saturdio · sundio [edit]

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”).

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

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

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

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

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

dio (feminine dia, masculine plural dii, feminine plural die) (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[2], 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, […]

• dio1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• iod, odi
• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdiː.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdiː.o]

dīō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dīus

• “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

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

• IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/

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.
     (please add an English translation of this quotation)
   • 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.
     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Ladino: dio

Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).

dio m (plural **dio)

1. god

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

• IPA(key): /dîo/
• Hyphenation: di‧o

dȉo m inan (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о) (Ijekavian)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro) part

• “dio”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• dió (pre-1954)
• IPA(key): /ˈdjo/ [ˈd̪jo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: dio

dio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of dar

dio

1. (Internet, sms) alternative form of diyor
   Bana dio sen benim en yakınımsın.
   He (or she) tells me you are my closest relative.