Noun: cio
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cio |
| Plural m | cios |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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A gata está no cio. (The cat is in heat.)
Nouns inflected like cio
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cio, ceo, from Latin zēlus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos). Doublet of zelo, a borrowing. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cio', Latin Nouns '
zēlus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ζῆλος'.
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