aio
Translingual
Symbol
aioCategory:Translingual lemmas#AIOCategory:Translingual symbols#AIOCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#AIOCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
See also
Abau
Pronunciation
Noun
aioCategory:Abau lemmas#AIOCategory:Abau nouns#AIOCategory:Abau entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO class I gender m
Declension
| form | |
|---|---|
| term of address | aio |
| term of reference | orih |
References
- Lock, Arnold Hugo. 2011. Abau Grammar. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 57. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL-PNG Academic Publications. Available online.
- Table 12: Vowel harmony in the suffixation of kinship terms, p.29
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯.oˣ/, [ˈɑ̝i̯.o̞(ʔ)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#AIOCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#AIO
- Rhymes: -ɑioCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑio#AIOCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑio/2 syllables#AIO
- Syllabification(key): ai‧o
- Hyphenation(key): aio
Verb
aioCategory:Finnish non-lemma forms#AIOCategory:Finnish verb forms#AIOCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. Either from the feminine aia, itself supposedly from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#AIOCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#AIO avia (“grandmother”), or from GothicCategory:Galician terms derived from Gothic#AIO *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja, “protector”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese aio and Spanish ayo.
Pronunciation
Noun
aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)Category:Galician lemmas#AIOCategory:Galician nouns#AIOCategory:Galician countable nouns#AIOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Galician masculine nouns#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
- (historicalCategory:Galician terms with historical senses#AIO) tutor, governor of a child
- Synonym: titor
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:
- Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.Category:Galician terms with quotations#AIO
- And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all they learned very well by themselves, everything that suited them
References
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ayo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aio”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ↑ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “ayo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
aio m (plural ai, feminine aia)Category:Italian lemmas#AIOCategory:Italian nouns#AIOCategory:Italian countable nouns#AIOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
Category:it:Occupations#AIOKhoekhoe
Etymology
From Proto-KhoeCategory:Khoekhoe terms inherited from Proto-Khoe#AIOCategory:Khoekhoe terms derived from Proto-Khoe#AIO *aio.
Verb
aioCategory:Khoekhoe lemmas#AIOCategory:Khoekhoe verbs#AIOCategory:Khoekhoe entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
- to thank
References
- "Khoekhoe etymology - Starlingdb", starlingdb. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#AIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#AIO *agjō, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#AIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AIO *h₁ǵyéti, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#AIOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AIO *h₁eǵ- (“to say”).
Cognate with adā̆gium, prōdigium, Ancient Greek ἠμί (ēmí, “to say”), Old Armenian ասեմ (asem, “to say”), and Proto-Tocharian *āks- (“to announce, proclaim, instruct”). See also negō.
Pronunciation
Verb
aiō (present infinitive aiere, perfect active ait)Category:Latin lemmas#AIOCategory:Latin verbs#AIOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO; third (-iō variant) conjugation, highly defective, no passive, no supine stem, no gerund
- to say, speak, assert, say “yes”, affirm (also in reply)
- Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:
- Cōnfūcius aiēbat...
- Confucius said...
- Cōnfūcius aiēbat...
- 16 BCE, Ovidius, Amores 3.7.77:
- ‘Quid mē lūdis?’, ait, ‘Quis tē, male sāne, iubēbat...?
- “Are you making fun of me?“, she says, “Are you stupid? Who asked you to...?“
- ‘Quid mē lūdis?’, ait, ‘Quis tē, male sāne, iubēbat...?
- to say, argue
Usage notes
- Often spelt āiō, etc. with long ā before consonantal i, especially in older editions, even though the a is in fact short. This is to mark the syllable as long by position due to the regularly-double morpheme-internal /jj/, which is normally spelt as single in modern editions.
- The full spelling is said to have been used by Cicero among others, who wrote aiio, aiiunt, aiiebant, as well as maiior (maior), eiius (eius), etc. Other writers and makers of inscriptions used the ī longa (tall I), e.g. AꟾO, EꟾUS, or even a combination AIꟾO, EIꟾUS.
- 3rd-person singular ait, the most common form, is normally attested as a disyllabic with two light syllables, that is [ˈa.ɪt], not [ˈaj.jɪt] with a first heavy syllable.
- The original forms with long ī, including before final t, can be found in Plautus, e.g. aīs, aīt, later undergoing iambic shortening.
- Also in Plautus can be found diphthongal forms such as a͡is (one syllable), a͡it (one syllable), a͡ibam, a͡ibās, a͡ibāt (two syllables), etc.
- ait is also used in past narration, and through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form, aistī is found post-Classically.
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | aiō | ais | ait | — | aitis | aiunt | ||||||
| imperfect | aiēbam | aiēbās | aiēbat | aiēbāmus | aiēbātis | aiēbant | |||||||
| perfect | — | aistī | ait | — | — | aiērunt, aiēre | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | aiam | aiās | aiat | — | — | aiant | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | aieret | — | — | — | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | ai | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | aiere | — | aiēns | — | |||||||||
Derived terms
- ain' tū? (for "aisne tū?")
- quid ais?
- Āius Locūtius
References
- “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
- as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur
- (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
- (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
- to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
Mokilese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aio/, [ajo]Category:Mokilese terms with IPA pronunciation#AIO
Adverb
aioCategory:Mokilese lemmas#AIOCategory:Mokilese adverbs#AIOCategory:Mokilese entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
- yesterday
- 1977, Mokilese Reference Grammar:
- Ngoah dupukda raisso aio.Category:Mokilese terms with quotations#AIO
- I bought that rice yesterday.
Nǀuu
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔəijo/Category:Nǀuu terms with IPA pronunciation#AIO
Category:Nǀuu terms with audio pronunciation#AIOAudio (Eastern); “Nya ka aio”: (file)
Category:Nǀuu terms with audio pronunciation#AIOAudio (Western); “Na ka aio”: (file)
Interjection
aioCategory:Nǀuu lemmas#AIOCategory:Nǀuu interjections#AIOCategory:Nǀuu entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
References
- Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary.
- Shah, Sheena, and Matthias Brenzinger. Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u ǁxaǁxa Nǀuu. Cape Town: CALDi, University of Cape Town. 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17432
Pohnpeian
Pronunciation
Adverb
aioCategory:Pohnpeian lemmas#AIOCategory:Pohnpeian adverbs#AIOCategory:Pohnpeian entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
- yesterday
- Likamwete e kohdo aio.
- Apparently he came yesterday.
- Likamwete e kohdo aio.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably from Late LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Late Latin#AIOCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin#AIO avius, masculinized from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#AIO avia (“grandmother”), whence Portuguese aia (“governoress”).
Pronunciation
- Homophone: alho (Caipira Brazilian)Category:Portuguese terms with homophones#AIO
- Rhymes: -ajuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/aju#AIOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/aju/2 syllables#AIO
- Hyphenation: ai‧o
Noun
aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)Category:Portuguese lemmas#AIOCategory:Portuguese nouns#AIOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#AIOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
See also
Further reading
- “aio”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “aio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Rotokas
Verb
aioCategory:Rotokas lemmas#AIOCategory:Rotokas verbs#AIOCategory:Rotokas entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
Related terms
References
- Firchow, Irwin; Firchow, Jacqueline; Akoitai, David (1973), Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 3
Venetan
Noun
aio m (plural ai)Category:Venetan lemmas#AIOCategory:Venetan nouns#AIOCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Venetan masculine nouns#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
- obsolete spelling of ajo (“garlic”)Category:Venetan obsolete forms#AIO
Yoruba

Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
aioCategory:Yoruba lemmas#AIOCategory:Yoruba nouns#AIOCategory:Yoruba entries with incorrect language header#AIOCategory:Pages with entries#AIOCategory:Pages with 14 entries#AIO
Category:Ondo Yoruba Category:yo:Lizards#AIO