pio

Abbreviation of English Piapoco.

pio

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Piapoco.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Piapoco terms

pio

1. Chicken.

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From Ancient Greek πῖ (pî, the letter Π).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: pi‧o

pio (accusative singular pion, plural pioj, accusative plural piojn)

1. pi

pio

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of piar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.o/, [ˈpi.jo]

Compare Maori pio (“extinguished”).

pio(stative)

1. extinguished
2. gone from sight, disappeared (as of a ship at sea)

• hoʻopio (“extinguish”, verb)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pio

1. (stative) conquered, captured
2. (intransitive) to play tag

• hoʻopio (“subdue”, verb)

pio

1. captive, prisoner
2. (playground games) tag

Onomatopoeic.

pio

1. peep, peeping

pio(intransitive)

1. to peep, to chirp
2. to whistle with the fingers in the mouth
3. to pipe (play a flute-like instrument)

• hoʻopiopio (“pipe”, verb)
• piopio (“chick, pullet”)

• pio in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.o/^[1]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: pì‧o

Inherited from Latin pius.

pio (feminine pia, masculine plural pii, feminine plural pie)

1. pious, devout, prayerful
2. charitable

• mansueto
• mite
• tranquillo

• piamente

Onomatopoeic.^[2]

pio m (invariable)

1. tweet, chirp (the cry of birds)

Often used as "pio pio".^[2]

• piare

• ipo-, poi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.o]

From Proto-Italic *pwīāō, from *pwījos (“pious”) + *-āō (denominative verbal suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean, pure”). By surface analysis, pius +‎ -ō. Cognate with Umbrian pihatu (3rd person singular imperative).

piō (present infinitive piāre, perfect active piāvī, supine piātum); first conjugation

1. to appease, propitiate
2. to purify, expiate

• expiō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pius

• “pio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -iu, -iw
• Hyphenation: pi‧o

From Latin pius.

pio (feminine pia, masculine plural pios, feminine plural pias)

1. pious
2. compassionate

   Synonym: compassivo

Deverbal from piar.

pio m (plural pios)

1. chirp (sound emitted by chicks)

   Synonym: piado

2. (figurative) peep (a feeble utterance or complaint)

   Shh, não quero ouvir um pio!

   Shh, I don't wanna hear a peep!

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pio

1. first-person singular present indicative of piar

• “pio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Onomatopoeic.

pio

1. the cry made by an oriole

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjo/ [ˈpjo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: pio

pio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of piar