# dio
## Corsican
### Noun

dio m (plural dii)
* Alternative form of diu

#### References

* http://infcor.adecec.net/

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdio]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -io
* Hyphenation: di‧o

### Noun

dio (accusative singular dion, plural dioj, accusative plural diojn)
* a god

#### Derived terms

* ĉefdio
* diino (“goddess”)

## Fijian
### Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *tio, from Proto-Oceanic *tiʀom, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiʀəm.

### Noun

dio
* oyster (mollusk)

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dì, Spanish día, ultimately from Latin diēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdi.o/, /ˈdi.ɔ/

### Noun

dio (plural dii)
* day (24-hour period).

#### Derived terms

* dia
** omnadia (“quotidian”)
** singladia (“quotidian”)
* diala (“daily”)
* die
** cadie, icadie (“this day, today”)
** hodie (“today”)
** omnadie (“every day, daily”)
** singladie (“every day, daily”)
** uladie, uldie (“someday, some day”)
* diopa (“daily, diurnal”)

### See also

* jorno
* nokto
* days of the week: dii di la semano (appendix): lundio · mardio · merkurdio · jovdio · venerdio · saturdio · sundio

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós, derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdi.o/, (traditional) $^*$/ˈdi.o/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -io
* Hyphenation: dì‧o
* Though the modern standard prefers not to geminate the initial /d/, it is geminated in traditional pronunciation (as reflected by the usage of gli before dei) and the pronunciation in all the regional Italian varieties, excluding those that don't have syntactic gemination.

#### Noun

dio m (plural dei or (archaic or dialectal) dii, feminine dea, feminine plural dee)
* god, deity
    Synonyms: divinità, (poetic) deità, divo, iddio, (literary) nume
* (informal) one who is remarkably skilled in something; ace, crackerjack, wiz
    Synonyms: asso, campione, mago, mito

##### Derived terms

* Dio
* Iddio

#### Further reading

* dio$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

From Latin dīus, alternative form of dīvus (“divine, godlike”), from Proto-Indo-European *diwyós (“heavenly”), derived from the root *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdi.o/
* Rhymes: -io
* Hyphenation: dì‧o

#### Adjective

dio (feminine dia, masculine plural dii, feminine plural die) (obsolete, poetic)
* bright, resplendent, shining (in a divine fashion)
    Synonyms: brillante, lucente, luminoso, splendente
** 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIV, page 250:[…] E io udi' nella luce più dia ¶ del minor cerchio una voce modesta, […] […] And I heard in the most resplendent light ¶ of the lesser circle a modest voice, […]
** 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia‎, volume II: “Alla beata Diana Giuntini”, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 74:Pur risplendeva oltre il mortal costume ¶ La dia bellezza nel sereno viso, […]Yet beyond the mortal custom shone ¶ The shining beauty in the serene visage, […]

#### Further reading

* dio$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* iod, odi

## Latin
### Adjective

diō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dius

### References

* “dio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* dio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “dio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin deum, the accusative form of deus (“god”). Doublet of dios, which came from deus, the nominative form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdi.o/

### Noun

dio m (plural dios)
* god, deity
** c. 1280, Alfonso X, General Estoria II, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, 2002, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):Et por esta ocasion podrie seer que desuiarien los uuestros fijos a los nuestros del temor de dio & del su seruicio.
** c. 1280, Alfonso X, General Estoria II, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, 2002, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares): […] crebantaua la ley en los sacrificios. & del maltraymiento contra ell. porque aorauan los dios agenos.

#### Descendants

* Ladino: dio

## Romagnol
### Etymology

Cognate with Italian dio (“god”).

### Noun

dio m (plural dio)
* god

### References

* Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 181

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* dȅo (Ekavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dîo/
* Hyphenation: di‧o

### Noun

dȉo m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏о)
* (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro) part

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* dió (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdjo/ [ˈd̪jo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: dio

### Verb

dio
* third-person singular preterite indicative of dar

## Turkish
### Verb

dio
* (Internet, sms) Alternative form of diyor
    Bana dio sen benim en yakınımsın.He (or she) tells me you are my closest relative.