ciao
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetian s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”). Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
- Hello, hi.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello
- Bye, goodbye.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye
Translations[edit]
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Noun[edit]
ciao (plural ciaos)
- A greeting or farewell using the word "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[edit]
In UK and in US usage, ciao is considered pretentious by some.
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Bavarian[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
References[edit]
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye; your (humble) servant”), from Venetian s-ciao (“servant, slave”) or s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, Italian Slav, slave and Old Venetian S-ciavón (“Slav”), from Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
Further reading[edit]
- “ciao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian ciao from Venetian ciao, ultimately from Latin sclavus. Doublet of Sklave and Slawe.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
Further reading[edit]
Interlingua[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
Synonyms[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Venetian s-ciao, sciavo (“slave”) (in particular the expression s-ciao vostro (literally “(I am) your slave”), in essence meaning "I am at your service", or "your humble servant"), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”) (whence also standard Italian schiavo); in the Venetian language originally pronounced /stʃaʊ/. Development and use is similar to the Southern German and Central European greeting of servus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
- hello!
- Synonyms: salve (formal), buongiorno
- goodbye!
- Synonyms: arrivederla (formal), arrivederci, ci vediamo (colloquial)
- Early 1940s, written by an unknown Italian partisan, Bella Ciao (Goodbye, beautiful!):
- È questo il fiore del partigiano,
o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
È questo il fiore del partigiano,
morto per la libertà!- This is the flower of the partisan,
Oh beautiful, goodbye! Beautiful, goodbye! Beautiful, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!
This is the flower of the partisan,
Who died for freedom!
- This is the flower of the partisan,
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Alemannic German: tschau, tschavò
- → Bavarian: ciao
- → Bulgarian: ча́о (čáo)
- → Czech: čau
- → Dutch: tjo
- → Esperanto: ĉaŭ
- → Estonian: tšau, tsau, tšauki, tsauki
- → Finnish: tsau, tsaukki
- → French: ciao, tchao
- → German: tschau, ciao
- → Hungarian: csaó, csá
- → Interlingua: ciao
- → Japanese: チャオ (chao)
- → Latvian: čau
- → Macedonian: чао (čao)
- → Maltese: ċaw
- → Norwegian Bokmål: ciao
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: ciao
- → Polish: ciao
- → Portuguese: tchau, chau, xau; ciao
- → Russian: ча́о (čáo)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: čau
- → Slovene: čáo
- → Spanish: chao, chau
- → Turkish: çav
- → Ukrainian: ча́о (čáo)
Further reading[edit]
ciao on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it- ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”) (as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Doublet of slave and slaver.
Interjection[edit]
ciao
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”). This in turn is from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. Doublet of slave and slavar.
Interjection[edit]
ciao
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao!
Spanish[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ciao
- Alternative spelling of chao
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