Noun: rio
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rio |
| Plural m | rios |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 142 ([[https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/279small.gif] facsimile]):]
Nouns inflected like rio
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, 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. See: Latin Nouns '
rīvus'.
Verbs referencing "rio"
Galician Nouns
río, Portuguese Nouns
rio.
Translations