Wt/sco/ciao

Inglis

Etymology

Italian ciao (“hello, guidbye”), frae Venetian ciao (“hello, guidbye, yer (hummle) servant”), frae Venetian s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, sclave”), relatit an aa tae Italian schiavo, Inglis Slav, slave an Auld Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Laitin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”). Nae relatit tae Vietnamese chào (“hello, guidbye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃaʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: chow

Interjection

ciao

1. hello, hi (especially US), howdy (US).
2. bye, guidbye.

Synonyms

• (hello): aloha, shalom, ayubowan, privet
• (goodbye): addio, adieu, adios, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, farewell, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, shalom, so long

Noun

ciao (plural Wt/sco/ciaos)

1. A greetin or fareweel uisin the wird "ciao".
   • 2010, Robert V. Camuto, Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey (page 16)

     […] he excused himself, disappearing in a cloud of ciaos and operatic Italian.

   • 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Bahamas For Dummies (page 196)

     You hear more ciaos than hellos. Guests play bocce ball on the beach and dine on Italian and some Bahamian cuisine. Because of its strong Continental overlay, the cuisine is better here than at your typical Grand Bahama hotel.

Usage notes

In UK an in US uisage, ciao is conseedert pretentious bi some.

Anagrams

• ICAO

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French

Alternative forms

• tchao

Etymology

Frae Italian ciao (“hello, guidbye”), frae Venetian ciao (“hullo, goodbye; yer (hummle) servant”), frae Venetian s-ciao (“servant, sclave”) or s-ciavo (“servant, sclave”), frae Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, sclave”), relatit an aa tae Italian schiavo, Inglis Slav, slave an auld Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), frae Laitin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃa.o/, /tʃaw/

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

Synonyms

• adieu
• au revoir
• salut
• tschüs

Further reading

• “Wt/sco/ciao” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Venetian s-ciao, sciavo (“sclave”) (in pairteecular the expression s-ciao vostro, leeterally meanin "(A am) yer sclave" but in essence meanin "A am at yer service", or "yer hummle servant"), frae Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”) (whance an aa staundart Italian schiavo); in the Venetian leid originally pronoonced /stʃaʊ/. Development an uise is seemilar tae the Central European greetin o servus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃäː.o], /ˈtʃao/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cià‧o

Interjection

ciao!

1. Hello!
2. Guidbye!

Derived terms

• ciao ciao

Descendants

• Bulgarie: чао (čáo)
• Czech: čau
• Dutch: tjo
• Esperanto: ĉaŭ
• Estonie: tšau
• French: ciao, tchao
• German: tschau, ciao
• Hungarian: csáó, csá
• Ido: chao
• Japanese: チャオ (chao)
• Latvie: čau
• Macedonie: чао (čáo)

• Maltese: ċaw
• Pols: ciao
• Portuguese: tchau
• Roushie: ча́о (čáo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ћао

  Roman: ćao

• Slovak: čau
• Slovene: čáo
• Spaingie: chau, chao
• Ukrainian: чао (čáo)

Anagrams

• Caio

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Spaingie

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao