apio

See also: Apio, ápio, and Ápio

English

Noun

apio (uncountable)

1. Synonym of akpeteshie (“Ghanaian alcoholic drink”)

Anagrams

• Piao, -opia, opia

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): [aˈpio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: a‧pi‧o

Noun

apio (accusative singular apion, plural apioj, accusative plural apiojn)

1. Apium

   Hyponym: celerio

Galician

Alternative forms

• aipo, ampio

Etymology

Attested since 1409. From Latin apium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈapjʊ]

Noun

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheat flour

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “apeo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “apio”, 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), “apio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “apio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.oː/, [ˈäpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.o/, [ˈäːpio]

Etymology 1

Non-lemma forms

Noun

apiō

1. dative/ablative singular of apium

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *apjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(é)p-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-; compare apō.

Verb

apiō (present infinitive apere); third conjugation iō-variant, no perfect or supine stem

1. to bind
2. to snag, snare

Conjugation

   Conjugation of apiō (third conjugation iō-variant, no supine stem, no perfect stem)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	apiō	apis	apit	apimus	apitis	apiunt
	imperfect	apiēbam	apiēbās	apiēbat	apiēbāmus	apiēbātis	apiēbant
	future	apiam	apiēs	apiet	apiēmus	apiētis	apient
passive	present	apior	aperis, apere	apitur	apimur	apiminī	apiuntur
	imperfect	apiēbar	apiēbāris, apiēbāre	apiēbātur	apiēbāmur	apiēbāminī	apiēbantur
	future	apiar	apiēris, apiēre	apiētur	apiēmur	apiēminī	apientur
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	apiam	apiās	apiat	apiāmus	apiātis	apiant
imperfect	aperem	aperēs	aperet	aperēmus	aperētis	aperent
passive	present	apiar	apiāris, apiāre	apiātur	apiāmur	apiāminī	apiantur
imperfect	aperer	aperēris, aperēre	aperētur	aperēmur	aperēminī	aperentur
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	ape	—	—	apite	—
	future	—	apitō	apitō	—	apitōte	apiuntō
passive	present	—	apere	—	—	apiminī	—
	future	—	apitor	apitor	—	—	apiuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		apere	—	—	apī	—	—
participles		apiēns	—	—	—	—	apiendus, apiundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		apiendī	apiendō	apiendum	apiendō	—	—

References

• “apio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin apium. First attested in the mid-13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/

Noun

apio m

1. celery
   • 1250, Abraham de Toledo, Moamín, libro de los animales que cazan , (as shown in the RAE's diachronic corpus, from an edition by Anthony J. Cárdenas for Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (Madison)):

     E si camiaren por la grand calentura que an, tomen de la semiente del apio tanto quanto entendieren que avrán mester

     And if they [the animals] change due to the great fever, they sould take as many celery seeds as they may need

Descendants

• apio

Spanish

Etymology

According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish apio, inherited from Latin apium, cognate with Portuguese aipo, Galician aipo, ampio. Another example of Spanish retaining [j] after a labial is rubio (“blond”), compare Portuguese ruivo (“red-haired, redhead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/ [ˈa.pjo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -apjo
• Syllabification: a‧pio

Noun

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
2. (slang, Spain) queer, poof

Derived terms

• apio criollo
• apio nabo
• apio sardónico

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: apyo
• → Ladino: apyo
• → Tagalog: apyo

Further reading

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “apio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 297
• “apio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10