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Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese rayo (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin radius . Doublet of radio and raxo .
Pronunciation
Noun
raio m (plural raios )
ray , beam (of light)
Synonyms: raxeira , raxo
1390 , J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago , Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208 :apareçeulle Santiago onrrado de vestiduras moi brãquas, armado com̃o caualeiro de moy fremosas armas que esplãdeçia mais que os rrayos do sol and Santiago showed before him, honorably dressed in very white clothes, armed as a knight with very beauty weapons that shone more that sunrays
lightning spark
Synonyms: apago , chispa , lóstrego
c. 1295 , R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla , Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 49 :Et aquelle Maffomat, rrey de Cordoua, estando estõçe en sua mesquita ffazẽdo ssua orraçõ, feryo hũu rrayo cerca del que matou dous omẽes And that Muhammad, king of Cordova, being then at his mosque praying, a lightning stroke nearby, killing two men
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “rayo ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “rayo ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “raio ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “raio ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “raio ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Etymology 2
Verb
raio
first-person singular present indicative of raer
first-person singular present indicative of raiar
Portuguese
raio
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese rayo , from Latin radius . Doublet of rádio .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -aju
Hyphenation: rai‧o
Noun
raio m (plural raios )
( mathematics ) ray
beam , ray (of light or radiation)
lightning
( mathematics ) radius
spoke (of a wheel)
Further reading
“raio ” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo , 1913
Etymology 2
Verb
raio
first-person singular present indicative of raiar