gaio

• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: ga‧io

From Late Latin gaius (“jay”). Cognate with Spanish gayo, French geai, English jay.

gaio m (plural gaios)

1. Eurasian jay

   Synonyms: pega marxa, pega rebordá

From Old Galician-Portuguese gai (in analogy with its feminine version gaia), probably from Latin gaudium (“joy”), as borrowed from Old Occitan gai;^[1] alternatively of Germanic origin. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

gaio m (plural gaios)

1. joy, merriment

gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gaios, feminine plural gaias)

1. merry, playful

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gaio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gaio”, 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), “gaio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Possibly of Germanic origin, or from Latin vagus (“wandering, flighty, giddy”); likely of the same genesis as Old Occitan gai, whence cognate to French gai, Portuguese gaio and English gay. Cognate with Sicilian javiu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.jo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: gà‧io

gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gai, feminine plural gaie)

1. gay, cheerful, happy
2. bright (colours/colors)

• gaiamente
• gaiezza

• gaio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Iago, agio, agio-, agiò

• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: gai‧o

Borrowed from Late Latin gaius.

gaio m (plural gaios)

1. jay (any bird of the genus Garrulus)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gai. Cognate with Galician gaio. Doublet of gay.

gaio (feminine gaia, masculine plural gaios, feminine plural gaias)

1. cheerful, jovial, colorful

• gaia-ciência