Dio

See also: dio, DIO, and dió

Corsican

Proper noun

Dio m

Alternative form of Diu

Esperanto

Pronunciation

From dio. Calque of Latin Deus. Compare English God.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdio]
Audio:
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Rhymes: -io
Hyphenation: Di‧o

Proper noun

Dio (accusative Dion)

God

Derived terms

Diservo

Italian

Alternative forms

Deo (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Deus, from deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós. Cognate with English deity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdi.o/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdi.o/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -io
Though the modern standard prefers not to geminate the initial /d/, it is geminated in traditional pronunciation and the pronunciation in all the regional Italian varieties, excluding those that don't have syntactic gemination.

Proper noun

Dio m

(Christianity) God
Synonyms: Iddio, padreterno

Related terms

dio

Further reading

Dio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
Dio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

iod, odi

Ladino

Proper noun

El Dio (Latin spelling)

Alternative form of Dyo

Latin

Proper noun

Dīō

dative/ablative singular of Dīon

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