# aio
## Translingual
### Symbol

aio
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aiton.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Aiton terms

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑi̯.oˣ/, [ˈɑ̝i̯.o̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ɑio
* Hyphenation: aio

### Verb

aio
* inflection of aikoa:
** present indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present imperative connegative

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Either from the feminine aia, itself supposedly from Latin avia (“grandmother”), or from Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja, “protector”). Cognate with Portuguese aio and Spanish ayo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈajʊ]

### Noun

aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)
* (historical) tutor, governor of a child
    Synonym: titor
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all they learned very well by themselves, everything that suited them

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ayo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ayo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aio”, 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), “aio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ayo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Etymology

Compare Sicilian aju.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.jo/
* Rhymes: -ajo
* Hyphenation: à‧io

### Noun

aio m (plural ai, feminine aia)
* (literary) tutor, teacher

## Khoekhoe
### Etymology

From Proto-Khoe *aio.

### Verb

aio
* to thank

### References

* "Khoekhoe etymology - Starlingdb", starlingdb. Retrieved February 2, 2025.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* ajō, aiiō, aijō (orthographic)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ǵyéti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ- (“to say”).
Cognate with adā̆gium, prōdigium, Ancient Greek ἠμί (ēmí, “to say”), Old Armenian ասեմ (asem, “to say”), and Proto-Tocharian *āks- (“to announce, proclaim, instruct”). See also negō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈai̯.i̯oː/, [ˈäi̯ːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.jo/, [ˈäːjo]

### Verb

aiō (present infinitive aiere, perfect active ait); third conjugation iō-variant, highly defective, no passive, no supine stem, no gerund
* to say, speak, assert, say “yes”, affirm (also in reply)
    Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, adnuō, contendō, arguō, fīgō
    Antonyms: negō, renuō, recūsō, abnuō
** Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:Cōnfūcius aiēbat...Confucius said...
** 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 3.7.77:‘Quid mē lūdis?’, ait, ‘Quis tē, male sāne, iubēbat...?“Are you making fun of me?“, she says, “Are you stupid? Who asked you to...?“
** 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Epistulae 1.16: […] servus, ‘habēs pretium, lōrīs nōn ūreris,’ aiō.(to the slave) […] “There's your reward: you aren't being flogged,” I reply.
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.704:Sīc ait, et dextrā crīnem secat [...].So speaks [Iris], and with her right hand she cuts the lock of hair [from Dido’s head]. (“Sic ait” in the Aeneid: cf. 1.142, 2.296, 3.189, 5.365, 9.749, 11.520.)
* to say, argue
    Synonyms: inquam, dīcō, effor, ōrō, alloquor, loquor, for

#### Usage notes

* Often spelt āiō, etc. with long ā before consonantal i, especially in older editions, even though the a is in fact short. This is to mark the syllable as long by position due to the regularly-double morpheme-internal /j/, which is normally spelt as single in modern editions.
* The full spelling is said to have been used by Cicero among others, who wrote aiio, aiiunt, aiiebant, as well as maiior (maior), eiius (eius), etc. Other writers and makers of inscriptions used the ī longa (tall I), e.g. AꟾO, EꟾUS, or even a combination AIꟾO, EIꟾUS.
* 3rd-person singular ait, the most common form, is normally attested as a disyllabic with two light syllables, that is [ˈa.ɪt], not [ˈaj.jɪt] with a first heavy syllable.
* The original forms with long ī, including before final t, can be found in Plautus, e.g. aīs, aīt, later undergoing iambic shortening.
* Also in Plautus can be found diphthongal forms such as a͡is (one syllable), a͡it (one syllable), a͡ibam, a͡ibās, a͡ibāt (two syllables), etc.
* ait is also used in past narration, and through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form, aistī is found post-Classically.

#### Derived terms

* ain' tū? (for "aisne tū?")
* quid ais?
* Āius Locūtius

### References

* “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* aio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110) as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)

## Mokilese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aio/, [ajo]

### Adverb

aio
* yesterday
** 1977, Mokilese Reference Grammar‎:Ngoah dupukda raisso aio.I bought that rice yesterday.

## Nǀuu
### Alternative forms

* ai yo

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔəijo/

### Interjection

aio
* thank you

### References

* Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary.
* Shah, Sheena, and Matthias Brenzinger. Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u ǁxaǁxa Nǀuu. Cape Town: CALDi, University of Cape Town. 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17432

## Pohnpeian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɐijo/

### Adverb

aio
* yesterday
    Likamwete e kohdo aio.
       Apparently he came yesterday.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* ayo (obsolete)

### Etymology

Probably from Late Latin avius, masculinized from Latin avia (“grandmother”), whence Portuguese aia (“governoress”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaj.u/ [ˈaɪ̯.u]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaj.u/ [ˈaɪ̯.u]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈaj.o/ [ˈaɪ̯.o]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈaj.u/
* Homophone: alho (Caipira Brazilian)
* Rhymes: -aju
* Hyphenation: ai‧o

### Noun

aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)
* a hired tutor

### See also

* tutor

## Rotokas
### Verb

aio
* eat

#### Related terms

* aioa
* aiopie

### References

* Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 3

## Venetan
### Noun

aio m (plural ai)
* Obsolete spelling of ajo (“garlic”).

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* aríro (Èkìtì, Owé)
* airo (Ọ̀wọ̀)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.īō/

### Noun

aio
* (Ondo) chameleon
    Synonyms: ọ̀gà, agẹmọ, lágẹma, alágẹmọ