indio

• Indio, índio

Borrowed from Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.

indio (plural indios)

1. A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 108:

     On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe.

• iodin, diion, dinoi, Idoni

• IPA^(key): /inˈdio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧o

indio (uncountable, accusative indion)

1. indium

• IPA^(key): /ˈindjo/ [ˈin̪.d̪jʊ]
• Rhymes: -indjo
• Hyphenation: in‧dio

indio (feminine india, masculine plural indios, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (of or relating to India)

   Synonym: hindú

2. Indian (of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas)

indio m (plural indios, feminine india, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (person from India)

   Synonym: hindú

2. Indian; Native American

indio m (uncountable)

1. indium

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.djo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -indjo
• Hyphenation: ìn‧dio

indio (feminine indio or india, masculine plural indios or indi, feminine plural indios or indie)

1. Pertaining to Native americans

indio m or f by sense (plural indios, masculine plural indi, feminine india, feminine plural indie)

1. Indian (“Native American”), Native American

   Synonyms: nativo americano, amerindio, indiano

• indio² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

indio m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) indium

• indaco

• indio¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• nidio

indiō

1. dative/ablative singular of indium

• IPA^(key): /ˈindjo/ [ˈĩn̪.d̪jo]

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• Rhymes: -indjo
• Syllabification: in‧dio

From India (“India”).

indio (feminine india, masculine plural indios, feminine plural indias)

1. Indian (from India)
2. Indian, Native American
3. (historical, archaic) Spanish colonial racial term for a native of the East Indies (i.e. lands beyond India looking from the west)

indio m (plural indios, feminine india, feminine plural indias)

1. a native of India
2. a Native American
3. (historical, archaic) a native of the Spanish East Indies (such as the Philippines, Marianas (including Guam, Northern Marianas), Caroline Islands (including Palau, Micronesia))

From índigo.

indio m (uncountable)

1. indium

• “indio”, 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