Etymology

Borrowed from SpanishCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Spanish#PAIOCategory:Catalan terms derived from Spanish#PAIO payo (“non-Romani”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpa.ju]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#PAIO
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpa.jo]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#PAIO

• Audio (Barcelona):

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  Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#PAIO

Noun

paio m (plural paios, feminine paia, feminine plural paies)Category:Catalan lemmas#PAIOCategory:Catalan nouns#PAIOCategory:Catalan countable nouns#PAIOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. (colloquialCategory:Catalan colloquialisms#PAIO) dude, man (losing its original meaning of non-Romani)

   Synonyms: soci, tio

   Aquell paio és estrany, no enraona amb ningú.

   That dude is weird, he doesn't listen to anyone.

   Category:Catalan terms with usage examples#PAIO

2. (colloquialCategory:Catalan colloquialisms#PAIO) gadjo (non-Romani)

   Era l’únic músic paio del grup.

   He was the only non-Romani musician in the group.

   Category:Catalan terms with usage examples#PAIO

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “paio”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “paio”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#PAIOCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#PAIO Paio, a personal name, from Late LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Late Latin#PAIOCategory:Galician terms derived from Late Latin#PAIO Pelagius.^[1] Cognate with Portuguese paio, palaio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpajʊ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#PAIO

Noun

paio m (plural paios)Category:Galician lemmas#PAIOCategory:Galician nouns#PAIOCategory:Galician countable nouns#PAIOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Galician masculine nouns#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. caecum (intestine)

   Synonym: paiolo

2. type of cured sausage

   Synonym: paiolo

Adjective

paio (feminine paia, masculine plural paios, feminine plural paias)Category:Galician lemmas#PAIOCategory:Galician adjectives#PAIOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. simple, unsophisticated, unintelligent

   Synonyms: pailán, paiolo

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “paio”, 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), “paio”, 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), “paio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “paio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Hawaiian entries#PAIO

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpai̯.o/, [ˈpɐj.jo], [ˈpɛj.jo] (rapid speech)Category:Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation#PAIO

Verb

paioCategory:Hawaiian lemmas#PAIOCategory:Hawaiian verbs#PAIOCategory:Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO(transitiveCategory:Hawaiian transitive verbs#PAIO)

1. to fight, to quarrel

   Synonyms: hakakā, kaua

2. to contend

Noun

paioCategory:Hawaiian lemmas#PAIOCategory:Hawaiian nouns#PAIOCategory:Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. fight, quarrel, argument, conflict

   Synonym: hakakā

Further reading

• paio in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Etymology 1

Back-formationCategory:Italian back-formations#PAIO as a masculine noun from the plural paia, from LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#PAIOCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#PAIO paria (“even, equal”, neuter plural of pār). Cognate with Sicilian paru.

Etymology 2

Etymology

From pa- +‎ io (“yes”)Category:Makasar terms prefixed with pa-#IO.

Verb

paio (Lontara spelling ᨄᨕᨗᨕᨚ)Category:Makasar lemmas#PAIOCategory:Makasar verbs#PAIOCategory:Makasar entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. (transitiveCategory:Makasar transitive verbs#PAIO) to make someone say yes; to ask for someone's consent

   Tena tau soleng taripaiona

   No one dies without having been asked to say yes to it (based on the belief that a person consents to die before death).

   Category:Makasar terms with usage examples#PAIO

   Matemakontu mate taripaionu

   Die then before your consent is asked.

   Category:Makasar terms with usage examples#PAIO

   Salloi kupaio-io nanampa eroʼ ammio

   I tried for a long time to make him say yes and only then did he want to agree.

   Category:Makasar terms with usage examples#PAIO

Noun

paio (Lontara spelling ᨄᨕᨗᨕᨚ)Category:Makasar lemmas#PAIOCategory:Makasar nouns#PAIOCategory:Makasar entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. fate; assigned lot

   Kakammatongi seng inakke paioku

   For such is indeed my fate.

   Category:Makasar terms with usage examples#PAIO

Further reading

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Pronunciation

• Homophone: PaioCategory:Portuguese terms with homophones#PAIO
• Hyphenation: pai‧o

Noun

paio m (plural paios)Category:Portuguese lemmas#PAIOCategory:Portuguese nouns#PAIOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#PAIOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#PAIOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#PAIOCategory:Pages with entries#PAIOCategory:Pages with 6 entries#PAIO

1. (cookingCategory:pt:Cooking#PAIO) a Portuguese enchido with pork meat, ticker than chourizo
2. (PortugalCategory:European Portuguese#PAIO, informalCategory:Portuguese informal terms#PAIO) luck

See also

• chouriço

Further reading

• “paio”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “paio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026