apio

apio (uncountable)

1. Synonym of akpeteshie (“Ghanaian alcoholic drink”).

• Piao, -opia, opia

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

apio (accusative singular apion, plural apioj, accusative plural apiojn)

1. Apium

   Hyponym: celerio

• aipo, ampio

Attested since 1409. From Latin apium.

• IPA^(key): [ˈapjʊ]

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheat flour

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “apeo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “apio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “apio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “apio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.pi.o]

Non-lemma forms

apiō

1. dative/ablative singular of apium

From Proto-Italic Proto-Italic *apjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁p-i-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-;^[1] source of apō.

apiō (present infinitive apere, perfect active apī, supine aptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to bind
2. to snag, snare

• “apio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "apio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Latin apium. First attested in the mid-13th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/

apio m

1. celery
   • 1250, Abraham de Toledo, Moamín, libro de los animales que cazan, (as shown in the RAE's diachronic corpus, from an edition by Anthony J. Cárdenas for Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (Madison)):

     E si camiaren por la grand calentura que an, tomen de la semiente del apio tanto quanto entendieren que avrán mester

     And if they [the animals] change due to the great fever, they sould take as many celery seeds as they may need

• apio

According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish apio, inherited from Latin apium, cognate with Portuguese aipo, Galician aipo, ampio. Another example of Spanish retaining [j] after a labial is rubio (“blond”), compare Portuguese ruivo (“red-haired, redhead”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/ [ˈa.pjo]

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• Rhymes: -apjo
• Syllabification: a‧pio

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
2. (slang, Spain) queer, poof

• → Cebuano: apyo
• → Ladino: apyo
• → Tagalog: apyo

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “apio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 297
• “apio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024