# teo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From English tea, French thé, German Tee, Yiddish טיי (tey), Italian tè, all ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈteo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eo
* Hyphenation: te‧o

### Noun

teo (accusative singular teon, plural teoj, accusative plural teojn)
* tea

#### Derived terms

* buterteo (“butter tea”)
* teacoj (“Theaceae”)
* tearbo (“tea bush”)
* teejo (“teahouse”)
* teino (“theine”)
* teismo (“theism (morbid condition from drinking too much tea)”)
* temaŝino (“samovar”)
* teujo (“tea caddy; teapot”)

### References

“teo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 2020

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteo̯̯/

### Noun

teo
* genitive singular of tigu
* genitive singular of tegu

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* teio

### Etymology

Attested since circa 1750. From Latin taedium. Doublet of tedio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈteʊ]

### Noun

teo m (plural teos)
* (veterinary medicine, pathology) scrapie
    Synonyms: lolo, rebullón, tortón
* (veterinary medicine, pathology) coenurosis
    Synonym: cenurose

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “teo”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “teyo”, 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), “teo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “teo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tedio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto teo, Italian tè, Spanish té, French thé, German Tee and English tea, which ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê, “tea”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈte.o/

### Noun

teo (plural tei)
* tea (drink)

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /tʲoː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /tʲɔː/

### Adjective

teo
* inflection of te (“hot, warm”):
** nominative/vocative/dative plural
** strong genitive plural
** comparative degree

#### Alternative forms

* (comparative): teocha (Cois Fharraige)

### Noun

teo f (genitive singular teo)
* Synonym of teocht (“warmth, heat; temperature”)

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
nominative
teo
vocative
a theo
genitive
teo
dative
teo
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an teo
genitive
na teo
dative
leis an teo don teo :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 32, page 16

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “teo”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “teo”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /te͜oː/

### Verb

tēo
* inflection of tēon:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive
** singular imperative

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

teo
* plural of uteo

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈte.o]

### Noun

teo
* seawater

### References

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

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Old Chinese 消 (OC *[s]ew) (B-S) (SV: tiêu).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tɛw˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tɛw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tɛw˧˧]

### Verb

teo • (消)
* to shrink, to shrivel

#### Derived terms

* teo tóp
* tẻo teo
* tí teo