pavio

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“to strike, hit”) (traditionally reconstructed as *paw-), and cognate with Lithuanian pjáuti (“to cut, reap”), Latvian pļaut (“to mow, reap”), Ancient Greek παίω (paíō, “to strike, hit”).^[1] See also paveō, pudeō, repudium, and tripudium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.u̯i.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.vi.o/,

paviō (present infinitive pavīre, perfect active pavīvī, supine pavītum); fourth conjugation

1. to beat, strike
2. to ram
3. to tread down

• pavīcula
• pavīmentum

• Vulgar Latin: *pavāre
  • Old French: paver
    • → English: pave
    • French: paver

• “pavio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pavio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pavio 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)
• pavio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Vulgar Latin *papīlum, from Latin papȳrus. Doublet of papel.

• IPA^(key): /paˈβio/

pavio m (plural *pavios)

1. candlewick
   • 13th century, João Fernandes de Ardeleiro, O que ſeja no pauyo; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1327:

     O que ſeja no pauyo
     Que me fez perder pauya
     De que meu nada nom fio
     Al mer fez comſa perfia:
     De noyte per muy g̃m fryo
     Que tangeſe en pella frya
     Mays aynda mendeu ryo
     Como sendel nũca ria.

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• Only attested through the idiom seer no pavio.

• Galician: pabío
• Portuguese: pavio

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “pavio”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pavio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pavio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavio, from Vulgar Latin *papīlum, from Latin papȳrus. Doublet of papiro.

• Rhymes: -iu
• Hyphenation: pa‧vi‧o

pavio m (plural pavios)

1. fuse (cord used to ignite a charge)
2. wick (burning cord of a candle)

   Synonym: mecha

• de fio a pavio
• pavio curto

• “pavio”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “pavio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pavio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pavio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025