English

Proper noun

Rio

1. Short for Rio de Janeiro.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:

     Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.

2. A male given name
3. A female given name
4. A census-designated place in Florida
5. A village in Illinois
6. An unincorporated community in West Virginia
7. A village in Wisconsin

External links

• Rio de Janeiro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• OIr
• RoI, ROI

Italian

Noun

rio m ‎(plural rii)

1. brook, stream, streamlet
2. (in Venice) A stretch of urban canal

Synonyms

• ruscello

Related terms

• rivo

Adjective

rio m ‎(feminine singular ria, masculine plural ri, feminine plural rie)

1. captive, hostile
2. (obsolete) guilty

Anagrams

• ori

Ladino

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus.

Noun

rio m ‎(Latin spelling)

1. lake

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish réud.

Noun

rio m ‎(genitive singular rioee, plural rioghyn)

1. frost

   Bee rio ayn noght.‎ ― It will freeze tonight.

2. ice

   T'ou shooyl er rio thanney.‎ ― You are walking on thin ice.

Verb

rio ‎(verbal noun riojey, past participle riojit)

1. freeze
2. ice up

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin rius ‎(“river”), from Latin rīvus ‎(“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reiH- ‎(“to flow; to move, set in motion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.o/

Noun

rio m

1. river
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 142 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria quis gua[r]dar de morte un ome dun Rei que ent(ra)ra […] en un Rio.

     How Holy Mary saved from death one of the king's men who had entered a river

Synonyms

• frume

Descendants

• Fala: riu
• Galician: río
• Portuguese: rio

Portuguese

rio Tejo (Tagus river)

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese rio ‎(“river”), from Vulgar Latin rius ‎(“river”), from Latin rīvus ‎(“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reiH- ‎(“to flow; to move, set in motion”).

Cognate with Galician río, Spanish río, Catalan riu, Occitan riu, French ru, Italian rio, rivo and Romanian râu.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/, /ˈʁiw/
  • Homophones: riu, ril (monosyllabic pronunciation)
• Homophone: Rio
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

Noun

rio m (plural rios)

1. river (large body of flowing water)
   • 1914, Alberto Caeiro, "O Tejo é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia":

     O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia

     The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village

2. (figuratively) a large amount of anything

   Ganhamos um rio de dinheiro.‎

   We earned a truckload of money.

Synonyms

• (river): flume

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.u/
• Hyphenation: ri‧o

Verb

rio

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of rir

Spanish

Verb

rio

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) preterite indicative form of reír.

Noun

rio

1. Misspelling of río. (Note the small accent on the correct spelling.)