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aio

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See also: AIO, -aio, and aîó

Translingual

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Symbol

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aio

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

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Finnish

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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aio

  1. inflection of aikoa:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since circa 1300. Either from the feminine aia, itself supposedly from Latin avia (“grandmother”), or from Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja, “protector”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese aio and Spanish ayo.

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Noun

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aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)

  1. (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

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  1. ^ 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

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Etymology

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Compare Sicilian aju.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈa.jo/
  • Rhymes: -ajo
  • Hyphenation: à‧io

Noun

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aio m (plural ai, feminine aia)

  1. (literary) tutor, teacher

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Verb

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aiō (present infinitive aiere, perfect active ait); third conjugation iō-variant, irregular, highly defective

  1. 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.)
  2. to say, argue
    Synonyms: inquam, dīcō, effor, ōrō, alloquor, loquor, for

Usage notes

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  • 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; through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form, aistī is found post-Classically.

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of aiō (third conjugation iō-variant, irregular, active only, highly defective)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present aiō ais ait — — aiunt
imperfect aiēbam aiēbās aiēbat aiēbāmus aiēbātis aiēbant
perfect — aistī ait — — —
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — aiās aiat — — aiant
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — ai — — — —
future — — — — — —
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives aiere — — — — —
participles aiēns — — — — —

Derived terms

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References

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  • “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[1], 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

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Adverb

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aio

  1. yesterday
    • 1977, Mokilese Reference Grammar‎[2]:
      Ngoah dupukda raisso aio.
      I bought that rice yesterday.

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Interjection

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aio

  1. thank you

References

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  • 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

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Adverb

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aio

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)

  1. a hired tutor

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Rotokas

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Verb

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aio

  1. eat
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Venetan

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Noun

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aio m (plural ai)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ajo (“garlic”).

Yoruba

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Aío

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Noun

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aio

  1. (Ondo) chameleon
    Synonyms: ọ̀gà, agẹmọ, lágẹma, alágẹmọ
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