polio

First element of polio(myelitis).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊljəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊlioʊ/, /-ljoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
• Hyphenation: po‧lio

polio (countable and uncountable, plural polios)

1. (uncountable) Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
2. (countable, informal) A person who has poliomyelitis.
   • 1977, United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Administration's Welfare Reform Proposal: Joint Hearings... (page 223)

     They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.

   • 2008, Cynthia Comacchio, ‎Janet Golden, ‎George Weisz, Healing the World's Children (page 141)

     The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits.

• DPT

Shortening of poliomyelitis. Perhaps borrowed from English polio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.li.oː/
• Hyphenation: po‧lio

polio f (uncountable)

1. polio, poliomyelitis [from ca. 1950s]

   Synonyms: kinderverlamming, poliomyelitis

• poliovaccin

From English polio, from German Poliomyelitis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolio/, [ˈpo̞lio̞]
• Rhymes: -olio
• Syllabification^(key): po‧li‧o

polio

1. poliomyelitis

• lipoo, pooli

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ljo/

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polio f (uncountable)

1. Clipping of poliomyélite. polio, poliomyelitis

• “polio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ljo/
• Rhymes: -ɔljo
• Hyphenation: pò‧lio

From [Teucrium] polium, from Late Latin polium, polion, from Ancient Greek πόλιον (pólion), from πολιός (poliós, “white, grey”).

polio m (uncountable)

1. the plant Teucrium polium (felty germander)

   Synonym: canutola

Clipping of poliomielite.

polio f (invariable)

1. poliomyelitis, polio

• -opoli, piolo

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.oː/, [ˈpɔlʲioː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.o/, [ˈpɔːlio]

From Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”), from the notion of fulling cloth. See also interpolō.

poliō (present infinitive polīre, perfect active polīvī or poliī, supine polītum); fourth conjugation

1. I polish, I smooth

• expolio
• interpolō
• polītus

• “polio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “polio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• polio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

poliō n

1. dative/ablative singular of polion
2. dative/ablative singular of polium

polio

1. farmer

Clipping of poliomielitis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoljo/ [ˈpo.ljo]
• Rhymes: -oljo
• Syllabification: po‧lio

polio f (plural polios)

1. poliomyelitis

• “polio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English polio.

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polio (n class, no plural)

1. poliomyelitis