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ceo

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

English edit

Noun edit

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

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

Anagrams edit

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin citō.

Pronunciation edit

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

Adverb edit

ceo

  1. early
  2. soon

Galician edit

Etymology 1 edit

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.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “ceo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ceo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ceo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

ceo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cear

Irish edit

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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.

Declension edit

Declension of ceo

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ceo ceonna
Vocative a cheo a cheonna
Genitive ceo ceonna
Dative ceo ceonna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ceo na ceonna
Genitive an cheo na gceonna
Dative leis an gceo

don cheo

leis na ceonna

Archaic or dialectal forms:

Declension of ceo

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ceo ceocha
Vocative a cheo a cheocha
Genitive ciach ceo
Dative ciaigh ceocha
ceochaibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ceo na ceocha
Genitive an chiach na gceo
Dative leis an gciaigh

don chiaigh

leis na ceocha
leis na ceochaibh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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.

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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

Further reading edit

Old English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ċēo f

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

Declension edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

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

Old French edit

Pronoun edit

ceo

  1. Alternative form of ço

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. sky
    • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 154 (facsimile):
      Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃.
      How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.
  2. (religion) heaven

Descendants edit

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

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

cȅo (definite cȇlī, Cyrillic spelling це̏о)

  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

Declension edit

indefinite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ceo cela celo
genitive cela cele cela
dative celu celoj celu
accusative inanimate
animate 		ceo
cela 		celu celo
vocative ceo cela celo
locative celu celoj celu
instrumental celim celom celim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cele cela
genitive celih celih celih
dative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
accusative cele cele cela
vocative celi cele cela
locative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
instrumental celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cela celo
genitive celog(a) cele celog(a)
dative celom(u/e) celoj celom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate 		celi
celog(a) 		celu celo
vocative celi cela celo
locative celom(e/u) celoj celom(e/u)
instrumental celim celom celim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cele cela
genitive celih celih celih
dative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
accusative cele cele cela
vocative celi cele cela
locative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
instrumental celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)

Venetian edit

Adjective edit

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

  1. small
  2. minute

Synonyms edit

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