Dio

See also: dio, DIO, and dió

Corsican

Proper noun

Dio m

1. alternative form of Diu

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdio/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: Di‧o
• Hyphenation: Dio

Proper noun

Dio (accusative Dion)

1. God
   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎ (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     EN la komenco Dio kreis la ĉielon kaj la teron.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.

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:

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• 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

1. (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

1. alternative form of Dyo

Latin

Proper noun

Dīō

1. dative/ablative singular of Dīon

Romagnol

Proper noun

Dio

1. (Christianity, Cesena) God
   • 2024, Franco Alpini, Andrea Alpini, La Bébia In Dialét Rumagnól, Genesis 1:1:

     In te prinzipi Dio e creét i zil e la tèra.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.