dio

See also: Dio, DIO, dió, dîo, and di0

Languages (14)

Translingual

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Basque • Corsican • Esperanto • Fijian • Ido • Italian • Ladin • Latin • Old Spanish • Romagnol • Serbo-Croatian • Spanish • Turkish

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Translingual

Symbol

dio

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dibo terms

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dio/ [d̪i.o]
• Rhymes: -io, -o
• Hyphenation: di‧o

Etymology 1

Verb

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)

Etymology 2

Verb

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”)

Corsican

Noun

dio m (plural dii)

1. alternative form of diu

References

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdio/

• Audio 1:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: di‧o

Noun

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

1. a god

Derived terms

• ĉefdio
• diino (“goddess”)

Further reading

• “dio”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “dio”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Fijian

Etymology

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.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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

References

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “dio”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[2], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 67

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/

Noun

dio (plural dii)

1. day (24-hour period).

Derived terms

• 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”)

See also

• jorno
• nokto

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

Italian

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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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.

Noun

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

Derived terms

• Dio
• Iddio

Further reading

• “dio²”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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^[3], 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, […]

Further reading

• “dio¹”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• iod, odi

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin diū (“long, a while”). Compare Romansh ditg.

Adverb

dio

1. (Maró) long (having a duration in time), for a long time

   Tan dio aste pa da gní ca? ― How long does it take you to get here?

   Baié dio de valch. ― To speak for for a long time about something .

2. (Maró) in a long time

   I ne sun dio nia plu stat a New York. ― I haven't been to New York in a long time.

Alternative forms

• giut (Gherdëina)
• dî (Badiot)
• al lonch (Fascian)
• alalongia (Fodom)
• a ra longa (Anpezan)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.o]

Adjective

dīō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dīus

References

• “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

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• dios

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/

Noun

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)

Descendants

• Ladino: dio

Romagnol

Etymology

Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).

Noun

dio m (plural dio)

1. god

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅo (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dȉo m inan (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о) (Ijekavian)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro) part

Declension

Declension of dio

	singular	plural
nominative	dȉo	dijélovi
genitive	dijéla	dijelova
dative	dijelu	dijelovima
accusative	dio	dijelove
vocative	dio	dijelovi
locative	dijelu	dijelovima
instrumental	dijelom	dijelovima

Further reading

• “dio”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dió (pre-1954)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjo/ [ˈd̪jo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: dio

Verb

dio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of dar

Turkish

Verb

dio

1. (Internet, sms) alternative form of diyor

   Bana dio sen benim en yakınımsın.

   He (or she) tells me you are my closest relative.