See also: CEO, ce-o, ceò, ceó, and céo

English

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Noun

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ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

  1. (aviation) Alternative letter-case form of CEO

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin citō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈθeo/, [ˈθe.o]
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Hyphenation: ce‧o

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ceo

  1. early
  2. soon

Galician

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ceo (sky; heaven), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; from Latin caelum (sky). Cognate with Portuguese céu and Spanish cielo.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈθɛʊ], [ˈθɛʊ̯], (western) [ˈsɛʊ̯]

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ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. sky
    Synonym: firmamento
  2. heaven
    • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 294:
      Maria virgen que he auogada dos pecadores et acorremento dos cuitados complida de todas uirtudes et de todas santidades sobrelas outras criaturas que deus quis facer enno ceo et enna terra
      Mary the Virgin, advocate of the sinners and aid of the afflicted, complete of every virtue and of every saintliness over all the other creature that God wanted to make in Heaven as well as in Earth
  3. ceiling
    • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:
      mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo
      I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling
    Synonym: teito
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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ceo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cear

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish céo,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kiwos (fog), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-wó-s (gray), see also Sanskrit श्याव (śyāva), Persian سیاه (siyâh, black), Russian сивый (sivyj, grey), Lithuanian šývas (light grey), Old English hīew (modern English hue).[2]

Celtic relatives include Manx kay and Scottish Gaelic ceò. Also compare English sky.

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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.

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Archaic or dialectal forms:

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ceo cheo gceo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kiw-o”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 23

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *kahwu, probably ultimately imitative.[1]

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ċēo f

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

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References

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  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Old French

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Pronoun

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ceo

  1. Alternative form of ço

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin caelum (sky). Cognate with Old Spanish cielo, Old Occitan cel and Old French ciel.

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  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.o/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ʊ/

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ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. sky
  2. (religion) heaven

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  • Fala: ceu
  • Galician: ceo
  • Portuguese: céu (see there for further descendants)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káilas.

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cȅo (Cyrillic spelling це̏о, definite cȇlī)

  1. whole
    Celo je vreme tamo ležala.She lay there the whole time.
    • 1993, Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics and music), “Ovo je Balkan”, in Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics), Muzika na struju[1], performed by Bajaga i Instruktori, Produkcija Stig:
      Ovo je ovde Balkan,
      Mirisni cvet,
      Totalno nerazumljiv za ceo svet.
      I svako može biti
      Dušman i brat
      Svakih pedeset leta izbija rat.
      This here is the Balkans
      A scented flower
      Completely incomprehensible for the whole world
      And anyone can be
      Enemy and brother
      Every fifty years erupts the war
  2. entire, complete

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Venetian

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

  1. small
  2. minute

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