polio

First element of polio(myelitis).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊljəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊlioʊ/, /-ljoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
• Hyphenation: po‧lio

polio (countable and uncountable, plural polios)

1. (uncountable) Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
2. (countable, informal) A person who has poliomyelitis.
   • 1977, United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Administration's Welfare Reform Proposal: Joint Hearings..., page 223:

     They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.

   • 2008, Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz, Healing the World's Children, page 141:

     The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits.

• DPT

Shortening of poliomyelitis. Perhaps borrowed from English polio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.li.oː/

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• Hyphenation: po‧lio

polio f (uncountable)

1. polio, poliomyelitis [from ca. 1950s]

   Synonyms: kinderverlamming, poliomyelitis

• poliovaccin

From English polio, from German Poliomyelitis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolio/, [ˈpo̞lio̞]
• Rhymes: -olio
• Syllabification^(key): po‧li‧o
• Hyphenation^(key): po‧lio

polio

1. poliomyelitis

• “polio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• lipoo, pooli

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.ljo/

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polio f (uncountable)

1. clipping of poliomyélite polio, poliomyelitis

• “polio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ljo/
• Rhymes: -ɔljo
• Hyphenation: pò‧lio

From [Teucrium] polium, from Late Latin polium, polion, from Ancient Greek πόλιον (pólion), from πολιός (poliós, “white, grey”).

polio m (uncountable)

1. the plant Teucrium polium (felty germander)

   Synonym: canutola

Clipping of poliomielite.

polio f (invariable)

1. poliomyelitis, polio

• -opoli, piolo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.li.o]

Of uncertain origin.^[1]

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁- (“to swing”), from the notion of fulling cloth by swinging and beating it. In this case, cognate with Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to swing, shake loose”). See also interpolō.

Another theory derives the word from an unattested adjective *polis, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₂-i, from *pelh₂- (“flat”), taking the word's original meaning as "to make flat and smooth".

poliō (present infinitive polīre, perfect active polīvī or poliī, supine polītum); fourth conjugation

1. to polish, to smooth

• expolio
• interpolō
• polītus

• “polio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “polio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "polio", 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)
• polio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

poliō n

1. dative/ablative singular of polion
2. dative/ablative singular of polium

polio

1. farmer

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ljɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔljɔ
• Syllabification: po‧lio

polio n (indeclinable)

1. (countable) polio, poliovirus (human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family that causes poliomyelitis)

   Synonym: poliowirus

2. (uncountable) polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis (acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and sometimes deformity)

   Synonyms: choroba Heinego-Medina, heinemedina, porażenie dziecięce

Indeclinable

or

• polio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• polio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

polio (Cyrillic spelling полио)

1. masculine singular active past participle of politi

Clipping of poliomielitis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoljo/ [ˈpo.ljo]
• Rhymes: -oljo
• Syllabification: po‧lio

polio f (plural polios)

1. poliomyelitis

• “polio”, 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

Borrowed from English polio.

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polio class IX (no plural)

1. poliomyelitis

   Synonym: ugonjwa wa kupooza