cio

• cieō

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

ciō (present infinitive cīre); fourth conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. alternative form of cieō

• “cio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

ċīo f

1. alternative form of ċēo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cio, ceo, from Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos). Doublet of zelo, a borrowing.

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

cio m (plural cios)

1. (uncountable) heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)

   Synonym: estro

   A gata está no cio. ― The cat is in heat.

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

• cijȇl
• cȅo (Ekavian)
• ciel, cěl (obsolete, Croatia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sîo/
• Hyphenation: ci‧o

cȉo (Cyrillic spelling ци̏о, definite cijȇlī, comparative cjȅljī)

1. whole
2. entire, complete

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjo/ [ˈθjo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjo/ [ˈsjo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: cio

cio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ciar

cio c

1. alternative letter-case form of CIO (“chief information officer”)
   • 2023 May 22, “Svenska cio:er bombarderas av AI-sälj – ”trodde inte det kunde bli mer men det kunde det” [Swedish CIOs are bombarded by AI sales - "didn't think it could be more but it could"]”, in CIO Sweden:

     Så kraftfullt att leverantörer pepprar svenska cio:er med produkter som de kallar för AI – men som inte alltid är det.

     So powerful that suppliers flood Swedish CIOs with products they call AI - but which are not always so.

   • 2015 March 19, “Föråldrad it-styrning försvårar cio-jobbet [Outdated IT governance makes the CIO job more difficult]”, in Computer Sweden:

     Det leder i sin tur till att skuggbudgeten ökar när verksamheten går under radarn för cio:ernas styrningsmodeller.

     This in turn leads to an increase in the shadow budget when the business goes under the radar of the CIOs' governance models.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.o/

cio

1. (transitive) alternative form of co (“to see”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics