ceo

See also: CEO, ce-o, ceò, ceó, and céo

English

Noun

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

  1. (aviation) Alternative letter-case form of CEO.

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin citō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθeo/ [ˈθe.o]
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Syllabification: ce‧o

Adverb

ceo

  1. early
    Synonym: pronto
  2. soon
    Synonym: llueu

Galician

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ceo (“sky; heaven”), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; from Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Portuguese céu and Spanish cielo.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈθɛo/ [ˈθɛ.ʊ]
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /ˈsɛo/ [ˈsɛ.ʊ]

  • Rhymes: -ɛo
  • Hyphenation: ce‧o

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. sky
    Synonym: firmamento
  2. heaven
    • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 294:
      Maria virgen que he auogada dos pecadores et acorremento dos cuitados complida de todas uirtudes et de todas santidades sobrelas outras criaturas que deus quis facer enno ceo et enna terra
      Mary the Virgin, advocate of the sinners and aid of the afflicted, complete of every virtue and of every saintliness over all the other creature that God wanted to make in Heaven as well as in Earth
  3. ceiling
    • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:
      mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo
      I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling
    Synonym: teito
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Verb

ceo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cear

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish céo,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kiwos (“fog”).[2]

Celtic relatives include Manx kay and Scottish Gaelic ceò. Also compare English sky.

Pronunciation

Noun

ceo m (genitive singular ceo or ciach or ceoigh, nominative plural ceonna or ceocha)

  1. fog, mist
  2. haze
  3. vapour
  4. (in questions and negative sentences) nothing, anything
    Níl tú ag insint ceo den fhírinne dhom.
    You aren’t telling me a word of the truth.

Declension

Declension of ceo (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ceo ceonna
vocative a cheo a cheonna
genitive ceo ceonna
dative ceo ceonna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ceo na ceonna
genitive an cheo na gceonna
dative leis an gceo
don cheo 		leis na ceonna

Archaic or dialectal forms:

Declension of ceo (irregular)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ceo ceocha
vocative a cheo a cheocha
genitive ciach ceo
dative ciaigh ceocha
ceochaibh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ceo na ceocha
genitive an chiach na gceo
dative leis an gciaigh
don chiaigh 		leis na ceocha
leis na ceochaibh (archaic, dialectal)
  • Alternative genitive singular: ceoigh
  • Alternative dative plural forms: ceochaibh, ceonnaibh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceo
radical lenition eclipsis
ceo cheo gceo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kiw-o”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 44, page 23
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 175
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 418, page 136

Further reading

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kahwu, probably ultimately imitative.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃe͜oː/

Noun

ċēo f

  1. a chough, a bird of the genus Corvus; a jay; crow; jackdaw

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Middle English: ka, co, cheo, choȝe, choughe, chowe, chow

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ceo”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Old French

Pronoun

ceo

  1. alternative form of ço

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Old Spanish cielo, Old Occitan cel and Old French ciel.

Pronunciation

  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.o/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ʊ/

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. sky
  2. (religion) heaven

Descendants

  • Fala: ceu
  • Galician: ceo
  • Portuguese: céu (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of céu.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káilas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sêo/

Adjective

cȅo (Cyrillic spelling це̏о, definite cȇlī)

  1. whole
    Celo je vreme tamo ležala. ― She lay there the whole time.
    • 1993, Bajaga i Instruktori, “Ovo je Balkan”, in Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics), Muzika na struju‎[1], performed by Bajaga i Instruktori, Produkcija Stig:
      Ovo je ovde Balkan,
      Mirisni cvet,
      Totalno nerazumljiv za ceo svet.
      I svako može biti
      Dušman i brat
      Svakih pedeset leta izbija rat.
      This here is the Balkans
      A scented flower
      Completely incomprehensible for the whole world
      And anyone can be
      Enemy and brother
      Every fifty years erupts the war
  2. entire, complete

Declension

indefinite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative ceo cela celo
genitive cela cele cela
dative celu celoj celu
accusative inanimate
animate 		ceo
cela 		celu celo
vocative ceo cela celo
locative celu celoj celu
instrumental celim celom celim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cele cela
genitive celih celih celih
dative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
accusative cele cele cela
vocative celi cele cela
locative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
instrumental celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
definite forms
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cela celo
genitive celog(a) cele celog(a)
dative celom(u/e) celoj celom(u/e)
accusative inanimate
animate 		celi
celog(a) 		celu celo
vocative celi cela celo
locative celom(e/u) celoj celom(e/u)
instrumental celim celom celim
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative celi cele cela
genitive celih celih celih
dative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
accusative cele cele cela
vocative celi cele cela
locative celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)
instrumental celim(a) celim(a) celim(a)

Venetan

Adjective

ceo (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine plural cee)

  1. small
  2. minute

Synonyms

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