io

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “Io”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəʊ/

io (plural ios)

1. A type of moth, the io moth.
   • 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious

     These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.

From Latin ; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “oh!”).

io

1. (rare) An exclamation of joy or triumph.
   • 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4‎, University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:

     Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
     O Pan! Io Pan!
     Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
     In the grip of the snake.

• -oi, OI, Oi, oi, oi!

• eu, iou

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Romanian eu.

io

1. (first-person singular pronoun) I
2. me

• mini/mine
• mi
• (a) njeu/(a) meu

• tu, tini
• el/elu, nãs
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj

io

1. who

• iö

Borrowed from Latin io, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ). Doublet of jo.

io

1. (dated) io (exclamation of triumph)

• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “io”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -o (correlative suffix of objects).

• IPA^(key): /ˈio/
• Hyphenation: i‧o
• Rhymes: -io
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io (plural ioj, accusative singular ion, accusative plural iojn)

1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

• io ajn (“anything”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

io

1. I

   Io te ama.

   I love you.

From Vulgar Latin *eo (compare Romanian eu and Italian io); from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

io (first-person singular, plural noi)

1. I

• jo (obsolete)

From Old Italian eo, from Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Catalan jo and Spanish yo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/, [ˈiːo], (in fast speech) [ˈio̯]

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• Stress: ìo
• Hyphenation: io

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

1. I, the first person

io

1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

Echoic; compare Greek ἰώ (iṓ), or English yo.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.oː/

iō

1. An exclamation of joy or pain, or for getting one's attention.

• io in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• io in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• io in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• io in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• io in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• io in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• ijo, ieo, je, j', i'

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego. Compare Italian io.

io

1. I, the first-person singular nominative pronoun

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz.

io

1. always, every time, continuously
   • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎, Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69:

     Duncla uuerthin ougon iro that sia ne gesian in rukgi iro io an crumbe.

     May their eyes be blinded so they (can) not see, and may their back keep getting bent!

   • 1981, Quak, Arend, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎, Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 71:

     An thi sang min io.

     For you is always my song.

2. ever, at some point, sometime
   • 1971, Willy Sanders, editor, (Expositio) Willerammi Eberspergensis abbatis in canticis canticorum. Die Leidener Handschrift. (Kleine deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters; 9)‎ (in Latin and Old High German), München: Wilhelm Fink, page 52:

     So wer ouch thurgh godes willan thiro wereld arbeyde muothe, wie magh her ie ze meeron ruowan cuman, thanne thaz her uollecume 'ad fontem totius boni'?

     And whoever by God's will is tired by the burdens of the world, how can he ever attain peace better than that he reaches the source of all good?

• ie

• “ie”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *aiwaz, whence also Old Norse ei

io

1. always