rio

rio (plural rios or rio)

1. Alternative form of riyō (“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)

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. (in 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 singular ria, masculine plural ri, 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.

• 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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.o/

rio m

1. river
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, 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

• frume

• Fala: riu
• Galician: río
• Portuguese: rio

From Old 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.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/, /ˈʁiw/
  • Homophones: riu, ril (monosyllabic pronunciation)
• Homophone: Rio
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

rio m (plural rios)

1. river (large body of flowing water)
   • 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.

• (river): flume

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

rio

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

• IPA^(key): /rjo/

rio

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) preterite indicative form of reír.

• rió

rio

1. Misspelling of río.