aio

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯oˣ/, [ˈɑ̝i̯o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑio
• Syllabification^(key): ai‧o

aio

1. inflection of aikoa:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

Attested since circa 1300. Either from the feminine aia, itself supposedly from Latin avia (“grandmother”), or from Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja, “protector”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese aio and Spanish ayo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈajʊ]

aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)

1. (historical) tutor, governor of a child

   Synonym: titor

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:

     Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.

     And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all they learned very well by themselves, everything that suited them

• “ayo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ayo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “aio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Compare Sicilian aju.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.jo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: à‧io

aio m (plural ai, feminine aia)

1. (literary) tutor, teacher

• ajō, aiiō, aijō (orthographic)

From Proto-Italic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ǵyéti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ- (“to say”).

Cognate with adā̆gium, prōdigium, Ancient Greek ἠμί (ēmí, “to say”), Old Armenian ասեմ (asem, “to say”), and Proto-Tocharian *āks- (“to announce, proclaim, instruct”). See also negō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈai̯.i̯oː/, [ˈäi̯ːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.jo/, [ˈäːjo]

aiō (present infinitive aiere, perfect active ait); third conjugation iō-variant, irregular, highly defective

1. to say, speak, assert, say “yes”, affirm (also in reply)

   Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, adnuō, contendō, arguō, fīgō

   Antonyms: negō, renuō, recūsō, abnuō

   • Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:

     Cōnfūcius aiēbat...

     Confucius said...

   • 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 3.7.77:

     ‘Quid mē lūdis?’, ait, ‘Quis tē, male sāne, iubēbat...?

     “Are you making fun of me?“, she says, “Are you stupid? Who asked you to...?“

   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Epistulae 1.16:

     […] servus, ‘habēs pretium, lōrīs nōn ūreris,’ aiō.

     (to the slave) […] “There's your reward: you aren't being flogged,” I reply.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.704:

     Sīc ait, et dextrā crīnem secat [...].

     So speaks [Iris], and with her right hand she cuts the lock of hair [from Dido’s head].
     (“Sic ait” in the Aeneid: cf. 1.142, 2.296, 3.189, 5.365, 9.749, 11.520.)

2. to say, argue

   Synonyms: inquam, dīcō, effor, ōrō, alloquor, loquor, for

• Often spelt āiō, etc. with long ā before consonantal i, especially in older editions, even though the a is in fact short. This is to mark the syllable as long by position due to the regularly-double morpheme-internal /j/, which is normally spelt as single in modern editions.
• The full spelling is said to have been used by Cicero among others, who wrote AIIO, AIIUNT, AIIEBANT, as well as MAIIOR (maior), EIIUS (eius), etc. Other writers and makers of inscriptions used the ī longa (tall I), e.g. AꟾO, EꟾUS, or even a combination AIꟾO, EIꟾUS.
• 3rd-person singular ait, the most common form, is normally attested as a disyllabic with two light syllables, that is [ˈa.ɪt], not [ˈaj.jɪt] with a first heavy syllable.
• The original forms with long ī, including before final t, can be found in Plautus, e.g. aīs, aīt, later undergoing iambic shortening.
• Also in Plautus can be found diphthongal forms such as a͡is (one syllable), a͡it (one syllable), a͡ibam/a͡ibās/a͡ibāt (two syllables), etc.
• ait is also used in past narration; through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form, aistī is found post-Classically.

• ain' tū? (for "aisne tū?")
• quid ais?

• “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
    
  • as the proverb says: ut or quod or quomodo aiunt, ut or quemadmodum dicitur
    
  • (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
    
  • (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
    

• IPA^(key): /ɐijo/

aio

1. yesterday

   Likamwete e kohdo aio.

   Apparently he came yesterday.

• ayo (obsolete)

Probably from Late Latin avius, masculinized from Latin avia (“grandmother”), whence Portuguese aia (“governoress”).

• Homophone: alho (Caipira Brazilian)
• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: ai‧o

aio m (plural aios, feminine aia, feminine plural aias)

1. a hired tutor

• tutor

aio

1. eat

• aioa
• aiopie

• Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 3

aio m (plural ai)

1. Obsolete spelling of ajo (“garlic”)

• aríro (Èkìtì, Owé)
• airo (Ọ̀wọ̀)

• IPA^(key): /ā.īō/

aio

1. (Ondo) chameleon

   Synonyms: ọ̀gà, agẹmọ, lágẹma, alágẹmọ