ceo

ceo

1. early

From Old Portuguese ceo (“sky; heaven”), from Latin caelum (“sky”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɛ.ʊ]

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky
2. heaven

• (sky): firmamento
• (heaven): paraíso

From Old Irish ceó. Cognate with Manx kay and Scottish Gaelic ceò and English sky.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /coː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /cɔː/

ceo m (genitive singular ceo or ciach or ceoigh, nominative plural ceonna or ceocha)

1. fog, mist
2. haze
3. vapour
4. (in questions and negative sentences) nothing, anything

   Níl tú ag insint ceo den fhírinne dhom.

   You aren’t telling me a word of the truth.

Archaic or dialectal forms:

• Alternative genitive singular: ceoigh
• Alternative dative plural forms: ceochaibh, ceonnaibh

• toitcheo (“smog”)

• "ceo" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “ceo” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “1 ceó” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• ċīo
• ċēa (normalised)

From Proto-Germanic *kahwō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːo̯/

ċēo f

1. A chough, a bird of the genus Corvus; a jay; crow; jackdaw.

• ceahhe

• Middle English: ka, co, cheo, choȝe, choughe, chowe, chow
  • Scots: ka, kae, kea, keaw
  • English: coe, chough

ceo

1. Alternative form of ço

From Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Old Spanish cielo, Old Occitan cel and Old French ciel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.o/

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 154 (facsimile):

     Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃.

     How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.

2. (religion) heaven
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 426 (facsimile):

     Subiu ao ceo. o fillo / de deꝯ. por dar paray.ſaos amigo^s ſeꝯ

     Ascended to heaven, the son of God. For giving paradise to his friends.

• Fala: ceu
• Galician: ceo
• Portuguese: céu
  • Angolar: onthe
  • Annobonese: osé
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: seu
  • Indo-Portuguese: ceos
  • Kabuverdianu: seu
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: sews
  • Principense: ose
  • Sãotomense: ose

• (Ijekavian): cȉo, cijȇl

From Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos.

• IPA^(key): /tsêo/

cȅo (definite cȇlī, comparative cȅljī, Cyrillic spelling це̏о)

1. whole
2. entire, complete

ceo m (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine plural cee)

1. small
2. minute

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