rio

rio (plural rios or rio)

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

rio (uncountable)

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

• OIr, Ori, ROI, RoI, Roi

rio

1. to look

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

Inherited from Spanish río.

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

río

1. river

 

Franco-Provençal Wikipedia has an article on:

rio

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Inherited from Latin rīvus.

rio m (plural rios) (ORB, broad)

1. brook, stream

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

• 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

rio

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

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

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.

rio m (plural rii)

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

• ruscello

• rivo

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

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.

• -irò, -ori, ori

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

rio m (Latin spelling)

1. lake

From Old Irish réud.

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.

rio (verbal noun riojey, past participle riojit)

1. freeze
2. ice up

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

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.

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.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rio

1. first-person singular present indicative of riir

• 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 Wikipedia has an article on:

rio

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• (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

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.

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.