"ciao" meaning in English

See ciao in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /t͡ʃaʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|ciao||hello, goodbye}} Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), {{der|en|vec|ciao||hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant}} Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), {{cog|vec|s-ciao}} Venetian s-ciao, {{m|vec|s-ciavo||servant, slave}} s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), {{der|en|ML.|sclavus||Slav, slave}} Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), {{cog|it|schiavo}} Italian schiavo, {{cog|en|Slav}} English Slav, {{doublet|en|slave|notext=1}} slave, {{cog|la|Sclavonia||Slavonia}} Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”), {{cog|vi|chào||hello, goodbye}} Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”) Head templates: {{en-interj}} ciao
  1. Hello, hi. Categories (topical): Greetings Synonyms: hello
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-intj-~Mmxhn5n Disambiguation of Greetings: 67 10 23
  2. Bye, goodbye. Categories (topical): Farewells Synonyms: goodbye
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-intj-6EymNHke Disambiguation of Farewells: 5 52 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell): ⁧تْشَاو⁩ (tšāw) (Arabic), ча́о (čáo) (Bulgarian), ĉaŭ (Esperanto), tšau (Estonian), tsau (Estonian), tsauka (Estonian), tsauki (Estonian), tchao (French), chau [masculine] (Galician), ჩაო (čao) (Georgian), tschau (German), ⁧צַ'אוּ⁩ (tshau) (Hebrew), csaó (Hungarian), チャオ (chao) (Japanese), tchau (Portuguese), ча́о (čáo) (Russian), ћао [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ćao [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), chao (Spanish), ча́о (čáo) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell': 47 53

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃaʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ciaos [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|ciao||hello, goodbye}} Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), {{der|en|vec|ciao||hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant}} Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), {{cog|vec|s-ciao}} Venetian s-ciao, {{m|vec|s-ciavo||servant, slave}} s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), {{der|en|ML.|sclavus||Slav, slave}} Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), {{cog|it|schiavo}} Italian schiavo, {{cog|en|Slav}} English Slav, {{doublet|en|slave|notext=1}} slave, {{cog|la|Sclavonia||Slavonia}} Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”), {{cog|vi|chào||hello, goodbye}} Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ciao (plural ciaos)
  1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao". Categories (topical): Farewells
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-noun-zwfb8EzP Disambiguation of Farewells: 5 52 43

Inflected forms

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      "word": "ჩაო"
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      "word": "tschau"
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      "word": "⁧צַ'אוּ⁩"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    }
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          "ref": "2010, Robert V. Camuto, Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey, page 16",
          "text": "[…] he excused himself, disappearing in a cloud of ciaos and operatic Italian.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Bahamas For Dummies, page 196",
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        "Hello, hi."
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          "Hello",
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          "hi",
          "hi"
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          "word": "hello"
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    },
    {
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    {
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tšāw",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "⁧تْشَاو⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ĉaŭ"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tšau"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tsau"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tsauka"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tsauki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tchao"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chau"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "čao",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ჩაო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tschau"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tshau",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "⁧צַ'אוּ⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "csaó"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chao",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "チャオ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tchau"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "ћао"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ćao"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "chao"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ciao"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Farewells",
    "en:Greetings"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
        "3": "ciao",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hello, goodbye"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "vec",
        "3": "ciao",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant"
      },
      "expansion": "Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vec",
        "2": "s-ciao"
      },
      "expansion": "Venetian s-ciao",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vec",
        "2": "s-ciavo",
        "3": "",
        "4": "servant, slave"
      },
      "expansion": "s-ciavo (“servant, slave”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "sclavus",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Slav, slave"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "schiavo"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian schiavo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Slav"
      },
      "expansion": "English Slav",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "slave",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "slave",
      "name": "doublet"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Sclavonia",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Slavonia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "chào",
        "3": "",
        "4": "hello, goodbye"
      },
      "expansion": "Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ciaos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ciao (plural ciaos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert V. Camuto, Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey, page 16",
          "text": "[…] he excused himself, disappearing in a cloud of ciaos and operatic Italian.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Bahamas For Dummies, page 196",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A greeting or farewell using the word \"ciao\"."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "chow"
    },
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ciao.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ciao.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ciao.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ciao.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ciao"
}

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