radio

Short for radiotelegraphy.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊ/

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• Hyphenation: ra‧dio

radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)

1. (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.

   send a message by radio

2. (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.

   We heard a lovely song on the radio.

3. (countable) On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
   • 2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News‎, London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 2018-02-07:

     David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.

4. (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
5. (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.

• (device to capture radio signal): tuner, wireless, receiver

• → Japanese: ラジオ (rajio)
  • → Hokkien: la-jí-o͘h

• transceiver

radio (third-person singular simple present radios, present participle radioing, simple past and past participle radioed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).

   I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio for help. / I radioed him already. / Radio the coordinates this time. / OK. I radioed them the coordinates.

2. (transitive) To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
   • 2002, Jack Dave, Death Bridge, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:

     “Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”

   • 2006, Angie Morgan with Courtney Lynch, Leading from the front: no excuse leadership tactics for women, page 111:

     When I told him that they weren't back yet, he asked if we could radio them back early […] Radioing them in was fine with me.

   • 2006, Kimberly Johnson, Amy's Secret, page 14:

     When she arrived, she was told that Tad wasn't there and to have a seat and wait while they radioed him in.

• aroid, doira

Borrowed from English radio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑː.di.ʊə̯/

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radio (plural radio's)

1. radio

radio f (plural radios)

1. radio

From English radio.

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radio (definite accusative radionu, plural radiolar)

1. radio

• “radio” in Obastan.com.

• IPA^(key): /radio/ [ra.ð̞i.o]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o

Borrowed from Spanish radio (“radium”), from French radium.

radio inan

1. radium

Borrowed from Spanish radio (“radio”).

radio inan

1. Nonstandard form of erradio (“radius”).

• "radio" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “radio” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Compare English radio.

radio

1. radio

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

radio c (singular definite radioen, plural indefinite radioer)

1. (technology) radio

• radiobølge

• “radio” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “radio” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from English radio, from Latin radius. Doublet of radius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːdijoː/

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• Hyphenation: ra‧dio

radio m (plural radio's, diminutive radiootje n)

1. radio, tuner

• → Aukan: ladio
• → Caribbean Hindustani: rádio
• → Caribbean Javanese: radio, radhio
• → Saramaccan: ládio
• → Trió: raarijon

• IPA^(key): [raˈdio]
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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o

radio (accusative singular radion, plural radioj, accusative plural radiojn)

1. radio
2. radius
3. ray

• radiofonio

• radiado
• vekradio (“clock radio”)

< Swedish radio (“radio”) or English radio

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑdio/, [ˈrɑ̝dio̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑdio
• Syllabification^(key): ra‧di‧o

radio

1. radio (technology)
2. radio (receiver or transmitter)
3. radio (type of media)
4. (in compounds) radio- (of or pertaining to radiowaves)

• sätiö (rare, archaic)
• (technology): radiotekniikka
• (receiver): radiovastaanotin, vastaanotin
• (transmitter): radiolähetin

• “radio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

An abbreviation of words like radiotélégramme, radiotélégraphiste, radiodiffusion, etc. Compare English radio.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.djo/

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radio f (plural radios)

1. radio, tuner

• “radio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dorai, rodai, rôdai

An abbreviation based on words beginning with the root radio-. Compare English radio.

radio m (plural radios)

1. radio

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

radio m (plural radios)

1. (uncountable) radium

Learned borrowing from Latin radius.

radio m (plural radios)

1. radius (of a circular object)
2. (anatomy) radius (bone in the forearm)

From radiar +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈradio/

radio (plural radii)

1. ray, beam, gleam
2. radio (device)
3. (geometry) radius
4. spoke (of a wheel)
5. (ichthyology) ray, skate

• (5) rayo

• radyo — informal

Borrowed from Spanish radio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾadjo/, [ˈɾɐ.d͡ʒo]
• Hyphenation: rad‧io

radio

1. radio

From Dutch radio, from English radio, from Latin radius.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrad̪io̯]
• Hyphenation: ra‧dio

radio (first-person possessive radioku, second-person possessive radiomu, third-person possessive radionya)

1. radio

   Synonyms: peti bicara, peti ngomong

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• “radio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

radio

1. radio

Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, razzo, and rai, the first two of which were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed from Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.djo/
• Rhymes: -adjo
• Hyphenation: rà‧dio

radio m (plural radi)

1. (anatomy) radius

   Synonyms: radiale, osso radiale

2. (obsolete) Alternative form of raggio

• radiale
• radiante

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.

radio m (plural radi)

1. (chemistry) radium

Abbreviation. Compare English radio.

radio f (invariable)

1. radio

radio

1. first-person singular present indicative of radiare

• Adrio, Dario, Doria, adiro, adirò, adori, arido, dorai, rioda, rodai

From radius (“spoke of a wheel”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.di.oː/, [ˈräd̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.di.o/, [ˈräːd̪io]

radiō (present infinitive radiāre, perfect active radiāvī, supine radiātum); first conjugation

1. (active voice) to cause to radiate, irradiate
2. (passive voice) to radiate, emit beams

radiō

1. dative/ablative singular of radium

• "radio", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "radio", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from English radio.

radio m (plural radios)

1. radio

radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioer, definite plural radioene)

1. (a) radio

• “radio” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioar, definite plural radioane)

1. radio
   • 1926, Olav Langeland, Rikare liv:

     Det vedunderet som me no kallar radio, hev synt det endå klårare. Det er ljosbylgjor som er so små og snøgge, og sume so langsame at ikkje noko menneskjeauga kann uppfanga dei.

     The miracle that we now call radio has shown this even clearer. It is light waves that are so small and fast, and some so slow that no human eye can perceive them.

• “radio” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French radio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.djɔ/

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• Rhymes: -adjɔ
• Syllabification: ra‧dio

radio n (diminutive radyjko)

1. radio (a device that can receive the signal sent over radio waves)

   Synonyms: radioodbiornik, odbiornik radiowy

2. radio station

   Synonyms: rozgłośnia, radiostacja, stacja radiowa