io

See also: Appendix:Variations of "io"

English

Etymology 1

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “Io”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɪəʊ/

Noun

io (plural ios)

  1. A type of moth, the io moth.
    • 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious
      These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

io

  1. An exclamation of joy or triumph.
    • 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4‎, University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:
      Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
      O Pan! Io Pan!
      Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
      In the grip of the snake.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Romanian eu.

Pronoun

io

  1. (first-person singular pronoun) I
  2. me

See also

Chuukese

Pronoun

io

  1. who

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin io, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ). Doublet of jo.

Interjection

io

  1. (dated) io (exclamation of triumph)

Further reading

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

io (plural ioj, accusative singular ion, accusative plural iojn)

  1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

Derived terms

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.o/

Pronoun

io

  1. I
    Io te ama.
    I love you.

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo (compare Romanian eu and Italian io); from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

io (first-person singular, plural noi)

  1. I

Declension

nominative io
accusative stressed mire
unstressed me (m')
dative stressed mi
unstressed âm
genitive masc. sg. meu/mev
fem. sg. me
masc. pl. meľ
fem. pl. mele

Italian

Alternative forms

  • jo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Italian eo, from Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Near cognates include French je, Portuguese eu, Romanian eu, and Spanish yo.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Pronoun

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

  1. I, the first person

See also

Japanese

Romanization

io

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Interjection

iō

  1. An exclamation of joy or pain, or for getting one's attention.

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
  • io in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • io in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego. Compare Italian io.

Pronoun

io

  1. I, the first-person singular nominative pronoun

Coordinate terms

NumberPersonNominativeAccusativeDativeReflexivePossessivePrepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz.

Alternative forms

Adverb

io

  1. always, every time, continuously
    • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎ (in German), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69:
      Duncla uuerthin ougon iro that sia ne gesian in rukgi iro io an crumbe.
      May their eyes be blinded so they (can) not see, and may their back keep getting bent!
    • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎ (in German), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 71:
      An thi sang min io.
      For you is always my song.
  2. ever, at some point, sometime
    • 1971, Willy Sanders, editor, (Expositio) Willerammi Eberspergensis abbatis in canticis canticorum. Die Leidener Handschrift. (Kleine deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters; 9)‎ (in Blend of Old High German and Latin), München: Wilhelm Fink, page 52:
      So wer ouch thurgh godes willan thiro wereld arbeyde muothe, wie magh her ie ze meeron ruowan cuman, thanne thaz her uollecume 'ad fontem totius boni'?
      And whoever by God's will is tired by the burdens of the world, how can he ever attain peace better than that he reaches the source of all good?

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz, whence also Old Norse ei

Adverb

io

  1. always
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