gaio
Galician[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ajo
- Hyphenation: ga‧io
Etymology 1[edit]
From Late Latin gaius (“jay”). Cognate with Spanish gayo, French geai, English jay.
Noun[edit]
gaio m (plural gaios)
- Eurasian jay
- Synonyms: pega marxa, pega rebordá
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese gai (in analogy with its feminine version gaia), probably from Latin gaudium (“joy”), as borrowed from Old Occitan gai;[1] alternatively of Germanic origin. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.
Noun[edit]
gaio m (plural gaios)
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gaios, feminine plural gaias)
References[edit]
- “gaio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “gaio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “gaio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “gaio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gayo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly of Germanic origin, or from Latin vagus (“wandering, flighty, giddy”); likely of the same genesis as Old Occitan gai, whence cognate to French gai, Portuguese gaio and English gay. Cognate with Sicilian javiu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gai, feminine plural gaie)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- gaio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aju
- Hyphenation: gai‧o
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin gaius.
Noun[edit]
gaio m (plural gaios)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese gai. Cognate with Galician gaio. Doublet of gay.
Adjective[edit]
gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gaios, feminine plural gaias)
Related terms[edit]
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ajo
- Rhymes:Galician/ajo/2 syllables
- Galician terms derived from Late Latin
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms borrowed from Old Occitan
- Galician terms derived from Old Occitan
- Galician terms derived from Germanic languages
- Galician adjectives
- Italian terms derived from Germanic languages
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ajo
- Rhymes:Italian/ajo/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian adjectives
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aju
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aju/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese adjectives
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