Noun: tio
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | tio |
| Singular f | tia |
| Plural m | tios |
| Plural f | tias |
Sample Sentences
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Tinha dois tiozinhos no ponto. (There were two guys at the bus stop.)
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tio da limpeza (janitor)
Nouns inflected like tio
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tio, from Late Latin thīus, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Galician and Spanish tío, Italian zio, Sardinian tiu. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
tio', Old Portuguese Nouns '
tio', Ancient Greek Nouns '
θεῖος', Italian Nouns '
zio'.
Verbs referencing "tio"
Italian Nouns
zio, Galician Nouns
tío, Spanish Nouns
tío.
Translations