paio

Borrowed from Spanish payo (“non-Romani”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpa.ju]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpa.jo]

paio m (plural paios, feminine paia)

1. (colloquial) dude, man

   Synonym: soci

2. (colloquial) gadjo (non-Romani)

• “paio” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “paio” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Perhaps from Old Galician-Portuguese Paio, a personal name, from Late Latin Pelagius.^[1] Cognate with Portuguese paio, palaio.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpajʊ]

paio m (plural paios)

1. caecum (intestine)

   Synonym: paiolo

2. type of cured sausage

   Synonym: paiolo

paio (feminine paia, masculine plural paios, feminine plural paias)

1. simple, unsophisticated, unintelligent

   Synonyms: pailán, paiolo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “paio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “paio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “paio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “paio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpai̯.o/, [ˈpɐj.jo], [ˈpɛj.jo] (rapid speech)

paio

1. to fight, to quarrel

   Synonyms: hakakā, kaua

paio

1. fight, quarrel, argument, conflict

   Synonym: hakakā

Back-formation as a masculine noun from the plural paia, from Latin paria (“even, equal”, neuter plural of pār).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.jo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: pà‧io

paio m (plural paia f)

1. pair

   Synonym: coppia

   il secondo paio di nervi cranici ― the second pair of cranial nerves

   tre paia di calzini ― three pairs of socks

• appaiare
• spaiare

• pari (see there for its descendants)

paio

1. first-person singular present indicative of parere

• Homophone: Paio
• Hyphenation: pai‧o

paio m (plural paios)

1. (cooking) a Portuguese enchido with pork meat, ticker than chourizo
2. (Portugal, informal) luck

• chouriço