rio
Meaning
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- (masculine) river (large body of flowing water)
- (figuratively,masculine) a large amount of anything
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ri‧o
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʁi.u/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rio (“river”), from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) + *-wós. Cognate with Galician río, Spanish río, Catalan riu, Occitan riu, French ru, Italian rio, rivo and Romanian râu.
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rir
- (pronominal) to laugh (to express mirth or derision by emitting chuckling sounds)
- (pronominal) to laugh at; to make fun of (to make an object of ridicule)
- (intransitive,poetic) to laugh (to be or appear mirthful)
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