rio

See also: Rio, RIO, río, rió, and riò

English

Etymology 1

Noun

rio (plural rios or rio)

1. Alternative form of ryō (“Japanese ounce”).

Etymology 2

Noun

rio (uncountable)

1. A grade of Spanish saffron, in quality below mancha and coupé but above standard and sierra.

Anagrams

• OIr, Ori, ROI, RoI, Roi

'Are'are

Verb

rio

1. to look

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish río.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrio/, [ˈri.o]
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

Noun

río

1. river (a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea)

Franco-Provençal

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rio

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Etymology

Inherited from Latin rīvus.

Noun

rio m (plural rios) (ORB, broad)

1. brook; stream

References

• ruisseau in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• rio in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 431: “un ruscello” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 1175B – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rīvus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 422

Galician

Verb

rio

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of rir

Italian

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: rì‧o

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move or set in motion”) and *-wós. Doublet of rivo.

Noun

rio m (plural rii)

1. (poetic) brook; stream; streamlet

   Synonym: ruscello

2. (Venice) a stretch of urban canal

Related terms

• rivo

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin reus. Compare Romanian rău (“bad”), Dalmatian ri (“bad”). Doublet of the borrowed Italian reo.

Adjective

rio (feminine ria, masculine plural rii, feminine plural rie)

1. hostile, malevolent
2. (obsolete) guilty
3. (obsolete) wicked
   • 1724, George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare (librettist: Nicola Francesco Haym)

     Piangerò la sorte mia, sì crudele e tanto ria.

     I shall lament my fate, so cruel and so wicked.

   • 1839, Gaetano Donizetti, Roberto Devereux (librettist: Salvadore Cammarano)

     Delitto sì rio, clemenza non merta.

     A crime so wicked, it does not merit clemency.

Noun

rio m (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) sin, fault, guilt

   Synonyms: colpa, peccato, reità

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 40-42; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Per tai difetti, non per altro rio,
     semo perduti, e sol di tanto offesi
     che sanza speme vivemo in disio.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Anagrams

• -irò, -ori, ori