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

Franco-Provençal

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^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1175B: “ruisseau” – 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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rio m (plural rii)

1. brook, stream, streamlet
2. (Venice) a stretch of urban canal

Synonyms

• ruscello

Related terms

• rivo

Etymology 2

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. captive, hostile
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.

Anagrams

• -irò, -ori, ori

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus.

Noun

rio m (Latin spelling)

1. lake

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish réud.

Noun

rio m (genitive singular rioee, plural rioghyn)

1. frost

   Bee rio ayn noght. ― It will freeze tonight.

2. ice

   T'ou shooyl er rio thanney. ― You are walking on thin ice.

Verb

rio (verbal noun riojey, past participle riojit)

1. freeze
2. ice up

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈri.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ʊ/
• Rhymes: -io

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, set in motion”) *-wós.

Noun

rio m (plural rios)

1. river

   Synonym: frume

   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 142 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria quis gua[r]dar de morte un ome dun Rei que ent(ra)ra […] en un Rio.

     How Holy Mary saved from death one of the king's men who had entered a river.

Descendants

• Fala: ríu
• Galician: río
• Portuguese: rio

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rio

1. first-person singular present indicative of riir

References

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “rio”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

rio Tejo (Tagus river)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/ [ˈhi.u], /ˈʁiw/ [ˈhiʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/ [ˈhi.u], /ˈʁiw/ [ˈhiʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/ [ˈχi.u], /ˈʁiw/ [ˈχiʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/

• (Central, Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈʁiw]

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -iu
• Homophone: Rio
• Homophones: riu (Central and Southern Portugal, Brazil), ril (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rio (“river”), from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) *-wós.

Cognate with Galician río, Spanish río, Catalan riu, Occitan riu, French ru, Italian rio, rivo and Romanian râu.

Noun

rio m (plural rios)

1. river (large body of flowing water)

   Synonym: (rare) flume

   • 1914, Alberto Caeiro, O Tejo é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia:

     O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia

     The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village

2. (figuratively) a large amount of anything

   Ganhamos um rio de dinheiro.

   We earned a truckload of money.

Derived terms

Related terms

• derivação
• derivar
• derivativo
• rival
• rivalidade

 

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: riu
• → Hunsrik: Rio

See also

• afluente
• fluvial
• foz
• lago
• leito
• nascente
• praia fluvial
• ribeira
• ribeiro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rio

1. first-person singular present indicative of rir

Further reading

• “rio” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Alternative forms

• rió

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrjo/ [ˈrjo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: rio

Noun

rio

1. Misspelling of río.

Verb

rio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of reír

Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.o]

Noun

rio

1. a footprint

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.o]

Verb

rio

1. (stative) to help, assist

Conjugation

Conjugation of rio
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	torio	forio	mirio
2nd	norio	nirio
3rd	Masculine	orio	irio, yorio†
Feminine	morio
Neuter	irio
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh