Dio
Corsican edit
Proper noun edit
Dio m
- Alternative form of Diu
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Pronunciation edit
From dio. Calque of Latin Deus. Compare English God.
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Proper noun edit
Dio (accusative Dion)
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Etymology edit
From Latin Deus, from deus, from earlier *dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós. Cognate with English deity.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.o/, (traditional) */ˈdi.o/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -io
- Though the modern standard prefers not to geminate the initial /d/, it is geminated in traditional pronunciation and the pronunciation in all the regional Italian varieties, excluding those that don't have syntactic gemination.
Proper noun edit
Dio m
- (Christianity) God
- Synonyms: Iddio, padreterno
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Further reading edit
- Dio on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- Dio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Ladino edit
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El Dio (Latin spelling)
- Alternative form of Dyo
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Proper noun edit
Dīō