dio

dio m (plural dii)

1. Alternative form of diu

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

Borrowed from Italian dio.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdio]
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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: di‧o

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

1. a god

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

dio

1. oyster (mollusk)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/

dio (plural dii)

1. day (24-hour period).

• jorno
• nokto

• (days of the week) dii di la semano; lundio, mardio, merkurdio, jovdio, venerdio, saturdio, sundio ^{(Category: io:Days of the week)}

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/

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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.

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, alternate 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) (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, […]

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

• iod, odi

diō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dius

• “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

Changed from dios to underline the oneness of God.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdio/

dio m (plural dioses)

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of dios

• Ladino: dio

dio m

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of dios

Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).

dio m (plural dio)

1. god

• Masotti, Adelmo (1999) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano (in Italian), Zanichelli

• (Ekavian): dȅo

From Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

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

dȉo m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia) part

• dió (obsolete)

• 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.