Noun: rio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: rì‧o
| Singular m | rio |
| Plural m | rii |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Per tai difetti, non per altro rio,
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semo perduti, e sol di tanto offesi
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che sanza speme vivemo in disio. (The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 40-42; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like rio
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move or set in motion”) and *-wós. Doublet of rivo. See: Latin Nouns '
rīvus'.
Verbs referencing "rio"
Portuguese Nouns
rio, Romanian Nouns
rău.
Translations