apio

English

Noun

apio (uncountable)

1. Synonym of akpeteshie (“Ghanaian alcoholic drink”)

Anagrams

• -opia, opia

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: a‧pi‧o

Noun

apio (accusative singular apion, plural apioj, accusative plural apiojn)

1. Apium

   Hyponym: celerio

Galician

Alternative forms

• aipo, ampio

Etymology

Attested since 1409. From Latin apium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheat flour

References

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.o/,

Etymology 1

Non-lemma forms

Noun

apiō

1. dative/ablative singular of apium

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *apjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(é)p-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-; compare apō.

Verb

apiō (present infinitive apere); third conjugation iō-variant, no perfect or supine stem

1. to bind
2. to snag, snare

Conjugation

References

• “apio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin apium. First attested in the mid-13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/

Noun

apio m

1. celery
   • 1250, Abraham de Toledo, Moamín, libro de los animales que cazan , (as shown in the RAE's diachronic corpus, from an edition by Anthony J. Cárdenas for Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (Madison)):

     E si camiaren por la grand calentura que an, tomen de la semiente del apio tanto quanto entendieren que avrán mester

     And if they change due to the great fever, they sould take as many celery seeds as they may need

Descendants

• apio

Spanish

Etymology

According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish apio, inherited from Latin apium, cognate with Portuguese aipo, Galician aipo, ampio. Another example of Spanish retaining after a labial is rubio (“blond”), compare Portuguese ruivo (“red-haired, redhead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapjo/

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -apjo
• Syllabification: a‧pio

Noun

apio m (plural apios)

1. celery
2. (slang, Spain) queer, poof

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cebuano: apyo
• → Ladino: apyo
• → Tagalog: apyo

Further reading

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “apio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 297
• “apio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014