"ciao" meaning in English

See ciao in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /t͡ʃaʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetan s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetan S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavus, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of Slav and slave. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|ciao||hello, goodbye}} Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), {{der|en|vec|ciao||hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant}} Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), {{cog|vec|s-ciao}} Venetan s-ciao, {{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|Sclavus}} Latin Sclavus, {{der|en|sla-pro|*slověninъ}} Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, {{cog|vi|chào||hello, goodbye}} Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”), {{doublet|en|Slav|slave}} Doublet of Slav and slave Head templates: {{en-interj}} ciao
  1. Hello, hi. Synonyms: hello
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-intj-~Mmxhn5n Categories (other): English greetings Disambiguation of English greetings: 66 11 23
  2. Bye, goodbye. Synonyms: goodbye
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-intj-6EymNHke Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English farewells, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 10 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 82 4 Disambiguation of English farewells: 18 60 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 21 70 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 10 entries: 12 69 5 6 2 6 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 77 4 5 1 5 0 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 13 80 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 81 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 13 81 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 13 79 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 72 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 14 78 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 13 79 8 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 15 77 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 15 77 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 79 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 15 79 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 12 81 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 79 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 13 80 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 15 79 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 13 79 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ciao bella, ciao for now 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': 52 48

Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃaʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav Forms: ciaos [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetan s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetan S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavus, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of Slav and slave. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|ciao||hello, goodbye}} Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), {{der|en|vec|ciao||hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant}} Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), {{cog|vec|s-ciao}} Venetan s-ciao, {{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|Sclavus}} Latin Sclavus, {{der|en|sla-pro|*slověninъ}} Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, {{cog|vi|chào||hello, goodbye}} Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”), {{doublet|en|Slav|slave}} Doublet of Slav and slave Head templates: {{en-noun}} ciao (plural ciaos)
  1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
    Sense id: en-ciao-en-noun-zwfb8EzP

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      },
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        }
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    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "chow"
    }
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "tšāw",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "تْشَاو"
    },
    {
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    },
    {
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      "code": "eo",
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      "word": "ĉaŭ"
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      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tšau"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Estonian",
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      "word": "tsau"
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      "word": "tsauki"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tchao"
    },
    {
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "čao",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ჩაო"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tschau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tshau",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "צַ'אוּ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "csaó"
    },
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      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chao",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "チャオ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "tchau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "ћао"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ćao"
    },
    {
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "chao"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "52 48",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "čáo",
      "sense": "transliteration of the Italian greeting or farewell",
      "word": "ча́о"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ciao"
}

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        "5": "hello, goodbye"
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  "pos": "noun",
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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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊ/"
    },
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    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    },
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      "homophone": "chow"
    }
  ],
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}
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    "Rhymes:English/aʊ/1 syllable",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Estonian translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ciao bella"
    },
    {
      "word": "ciao for now"
    }
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      "args": {
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        "3": "ciao",
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        "5": "hello, goodbye"
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      "name": "bor"
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    {
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        "2": "vec",
        "3": "ciao",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant"
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        "4": "",
        "5": "Slav, slave"
      },
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "schiavo"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian schiavo",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "slave",
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Sclavus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Sclavus",
      "name": "cog"
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        "3": "*slověninъ"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "chào",
        "3": "",
        "4": "hello, goodbye"
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      "expansion": "Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "slave"
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      "expansion": "Doublet of Slav and slave",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Hello, hi."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Hello",
          "hello"
        ],
        [
          "hi",
          "hi"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "hello"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Bye, goodbye."
      ],
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        [
          "Bye",
          "bye"
        ],
        [
          "goodbye",
          "goodbye"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "goodbye"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "chow"
    }
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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"
}

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    "English interjections",
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Estonian translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "it",
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        "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"
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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        "3": "sclavus",
        "4": "",
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "schiavo"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Slav"
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      "expansion": "English Slav",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "slave",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "slave",
      "name": "doublet"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Sclavus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Sclavus",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sla-pro",
        "3": "*slověninъ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *slověninъ",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "chào",
        "3": "",
        "4": "hello, goodbye"
      },
      "expansion": "Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Slav",
        "3": "slave"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Slav and slave",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetan s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetan S-ciavón (\"Slav\"), from Latin Sclavus, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of Slav and slave.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ciaos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ciao (plural ciaos)",
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  "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A greeting or farewell using the word \"ciao\"."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ciao.wav",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "chow"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ciao"
}

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