ceo

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

1. (aviation) Alternative letter-case form of CEO

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

Inherited from Latin citō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeo/, [ˈθe.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: ce‧o

ceo

1. early
2. soon

• ceio

From Old Galician-Portuguese ceo (“sky; heaven”), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; from Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Portuguese céu and Spanish cielo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɛʊ], [ˈθɛʊ̯], (western) [ˈsɛʊ̯]

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky

   Synonym: firmamento

2. heaven
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 294:

     Maria virgen que he auogada dos pecadores et acorremento dos cuitados complida de todas uirtudes et de todas santidades sobrelas outras criaturas que deus quis facer enno ceo et enna terra

     Mary the Virgin, advocate of the sinners and aid of the afflicted, complete of every virtue and of every saintliness over all the other creature that God wanted to make in Heaven as well as in Earth

3. ceiling
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling

   Synonym: teito

• ceo da boca (“roof of the mouth”)

• “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ceo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ceo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ceo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Irish ceó, from Proto-Celtic *kiw-o- (“fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-wó-s (“dark; deep brown”), see also Avestan 𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀‎ (siiāuua), Persian سیاه‎ (siyâh, “black”), Russian сивый (sivyj, “grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Old English hīew (modern English hue).[1]

Celtic relatives include Manx kay and Scottish Gaelic ceò. Also compare English sky.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /coː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /cɔː/

ceo m (genitive singular ceo or ciach or ceoigh, nominative plural ceonna or ceocha)

1. fog, mist
2. haze
3. vapour
4. (in questions and negative sentences) nothing, anything

   Níl tú ag insint ceo den fhírinne dhom.

   You aren’t telling me a word of the truth.

Archaic or dialectal forms:

• Alternative genitive singular: ceoigh
• Alternative dative plural forms: ceochaibh, ceonnaibh

• toitcheo (“smog”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ceo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “ceo”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 133
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 23

• ċīo
• ċēa – normalised

From Proto-West Germanic *kahwu, probably ultimately imitative.[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe͜oː/

ċēo f

1. a chough, a bird of the genus Corvus; a jay; crow; jackdaw

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ceahhe

• Middle English: ka, co, cheo, choȝe, choughe, chowe, chow
  • Scots: ka, kae, kea, keaw
  • English: coe, chough

ceo

1. Alternative form of ço

Inherited from Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Old Spanish cielo, Old Occitan cel and Old French ciel.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ʊ/

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 154 (facsimile):

     Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃.

     How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.

2. (religion) heaven
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 426 (facsimile):

     Subiu ao ceo. o fillo / de deꝯ. por dar paray.ſaos amigo^s ſeꝯ

     Ascended to heaven, the son of God. For giving paradise to his friends.

• Fala: ceu
• Galician: ceo
• Portuguese: céu (see there for further descendants)

• cȉo, cijȇl (Ijekavian)

From Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káilas.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sêo/

cȅo (definite cȇlī, Cyrillic spelling це̏о)

1. whole
   • 1993, Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics and music), “Ovo je Balkan”, in Muzika na struju‎, Produkcija Stig, performed by Bajaga i Instruktori:

     Ovo je ovde Balkan,
     Mirisni cvet,
     Totalno nerazumljiv za ceo svet.
     I svako može biti
     Dušman i brat
     Svakih pedeset leta izbija rat.

     This here is the Balkans
     A scented flower
     Completely incomprehensible for the whole world
     And anyone can be
     Enemy and brother
     Every fifty years erupts the war

   Celo je vreme tamo ležala. ― She lay there the whole time.

1. entire, complete

ceo (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine plural cee)

1. small
2. minute

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