tio

Borrowed from Hokkien 著 (tio̍h).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): [tjoʔ˨˩], (sentence-final, or as an interjection) [tjoʔ˦˧]

• Audio (US):

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tio

1. (Singlish, uncommon) Correct; that's right.

• tio bo

tio (invariable)

1. (Singlish, transitive) To get, receive, experience, suffer or be affected by.

   He tio virus

   She tio money

2. (Singlish, intransitive) To win a game, especially a game of chance.

   She play lottery and tio

3. (Singlish, auxiliary, rare) Used before a verb to indicate the passive voice.

   I tio banned

• (correct): Typically only used among speakers familiar with Hokkien.
• (to get, passive voice marker): In contrast to kena, which is exclusively negative, tio can be used to indicate both positive and negative effects.

• -iot, ITO, IoT, Ito, OIT, OIt, TOI

Borrowed from Spanish tío.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈti.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈti.o]

tio m (plural tios, feminine tia)

1. (regional) uncle

   Synonyms: oncle, (colloquial) tiet

2. (colloquial) dude; pal, when addressing them

• tiet

From ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) +‎ -o (correlative suffix of objects).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtio]

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: ti‧o

tio (accusative tion)

1. that [thing] (demonstrative correlative of objects)

• As with other correlatives of objects, and unlike English that, tio always functions as a pronoun, never an adjective.
• When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, ĉi tio or tio ĉi means "this [thing]".
• The plural forms tioj and tiojn are nonstandard and rare.

Esperanto correlatives

		Interrogative	Demonstrative	Indefinite	Universal	Negative
		ki-	ti-	i-	ĉi-	neni-
Kind of, sort of	-a	kia	tia	ia	ĉia	nenia
Reason	-al	kial	tial	ial	ĉial	nenial
Time	-am	kiam	tiam	iam	ĉiam	neniam
Place	-e	kie	tie	ie	ĉie	nenie
Motion	-en	kien	tien	ien	ĉien	nenien
Manner	-el	kiel	tiel	iel	ĉiel	neniel
Possessive	-es	kies	ties	ies	ĉies	nenies
Demonstrative pronoun	-o	kio	tio	io	ĉio	nenio
Amount	-om	kiom	tiom	iom	ĉiom	neniom
Demonstrative determiner	-u	kiu	tiu	iu	ĉiu	neniu

From Old French clos, from Latin clausus (compare French clos, Norman clios)), perfect passive participle of claudō, claudere (“shut, close”).

tio m (plural tios)

1. (agriculture) enclosure, field

Borrowed from Spanish tío.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtijo/ [ˈti.jo]
• Hyphenation: ti‧o

tio (feminine tia)

1. uncle

   Synonyms: uliteg, angkel

Borrowed from Italian zio, from Latin thius.

tio f

1. uncle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Hawaiian kio, Malay tiram).

tio

1. oyster

Inherited from Late Latin thīum, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos) Cognate with Old Spanish tio.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈti.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ʊ/
• Rhymes: -io

tio m (plural tios, feminine tia, feminine plural tias)

1. uncle

• Galician: tío
• Portuguese: tio

From Late Latin thius, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese tio.

tio m

1. uncle
   • 13th century, Estoria de España, volume 2, page 64v:

     fuera / se pora Pamplona a conseiar se con / aquel su tio Rey don Garçia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Spanish: tío
  • → Catalan: tio
• Ladino: tio

• tīu

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

tīo

1. ten

• Swedish: tio

From Portuguese tio and Spanish tío and Kabuverdianu tiu.

tio

1. uncle

• thio (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tio, from Late Latin thīus, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Galician and Spanish tío, Italian zio, Sardinian tiu.

• (Northeastern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtiw/

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -iu
• Homophone: til (Brazil, ignoring syllable breaks)
• Hyphenation: ti‧o

tio m (plural tios, feminine tia, feminine plural tias)

1. uncle (brother of someone's father or mother, or an aunt's husband)
2. (Brazil, colloquial, often considered disrespectful) uncle (term of address for any adult)
   1. (usually in the diminutive) guy; bloke

      Tinha dois tiozinhos no ponto. ― There were two guys at the bus stop.

   2. an employee who performs a given activity

      tio da limpeza ― janitor (literally, “uncle of the cleaning”)

3. (slang, Brazil) an informal form of address for males of any age; bro

   Synonyms: cara, mano, velho

4. (Alentejo, Algarve) an informal form of address for older people

   Synonym: (Brazil) seu

When used as a form of adress in Southern Portugal, the last syllable is clipped, followed by the popular form (if there is one) of the name: tio Manuel > ti'Manel, tio Joaquim > ti'Jaquim, tio António > ti'ntóino

• tiozinho (diminutive)
• tiozão (augmentative)
• tio do pavê

• Kabuverdianu: tiu
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tiu
• → Aukan: tiyu
• → Saramaccan: tio

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun (“ten”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”). Cognate with Icelandic tíu, Faroese tíggju, Norwegian ti, Danish ti and English ten.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːˌʊ/, /ˈtiːˌɛ/

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tio

1. ten

• tia
• tionde

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

• tio in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tio in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tio in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)