different between executive vs ceo

English

Etymology

From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?kj?t?v/, /???z?kj?t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?kj?t?v/

Adjective

executive (comparative more executive, superlative most executive)

1. Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
2. Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.

3. Exclusive.

   an executive bathroom

Translations

Noun

executive (plural executives)

1. A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
2. The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
3. (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
   • 1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles

     The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]

Derived terms

• chief executive
• chief executive officer, CEO
• executive branch
• executive committee
• executive director
• executive ego function
• executive mansion
• executive officer
• executive order
• executive producer
• executive summary
• executively

Translations

English

Noun

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

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

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cit?.

Adverb

ceo

1. early

Galician

Alternative forms

• ceio

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????], [?????], (western) [?s???]

Noun

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

Derived terms

• ceo da boca (“roof of the mouth”)

References

• “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “ceo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ceó, from Proto-Celtic *kiw-o- (“fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yeh?-wó-s (“dark; deep brown”), see also Avestan ????????????????????????????? (sii?uua), Persian ????? (siyâh, “black”), Russian ????? (sivyj, “grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Old English h?ew (modern English hue).

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /k?o?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /k???/

Noun

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

Declension

Archaic or dialectal forms:

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

Derived terms

• toitcheo (“smog”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• "ceo" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “ceo” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??o
• ??a – normalised

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e?o?/

Noun

??o f

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

Related terms

• ceahhe

Descendants

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

References

Old French

Pronoun

ceo

1. Alternative form of ço

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?.o/

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky

   • Como un tafur tirou con h?a bae?ta h?a seeta cõtra o ceo con ?anna p? q? pdera. p? q? cuidaua q? firia a deos o.?.M?.

     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

   • Subiu ao ceo. o fillo / de de?. por dar paray.?aos amigo^s ?e?

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

Descendants

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• c?o, cij?l (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *c?l?, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sêo/

Adjective

c?o (definite c?l?, comparative c?lj?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. whole
2. entire, complete

Declension

Venetian

Adjective

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

1. small
2. minute

Synonyms

• picenin