different between xiao vs ciao

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin ? (xi?o).

Noun

xiao (plural xiaos)

1. A type of Chinese flute.

Translations

Anagrams

• oxia

Mandarin

Romanization

xiao

1. Nonstandard spelling of xi?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of xiáo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of xi?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of xiào.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetian ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetian s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”). Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: chow

Interjection

ciao

1. hello, hi.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello

2. bye, goodbye.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye

Translations

Noun

ciao (plural ciaos)

1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
   • 2010, Robert V. Camuto, Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey (page 16)

     […] he excused himself, disappearing in a cloud of ciaos and operatic Italian.

   • 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Bahamas For Dummies (page 196)

     You hear more ciaos than hellos. Guests play bocce ball on the beach and dine on Italian and some Bahamian cuisine. Because of its strong Continental overlay, the cuisine is better here than at your typical Grand Bahama hotel.

Usage notes

In UK and in US usage, ciao is considered pretentious by some.

Further reading

• ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Coia, ICAO

Bavarian

Interjection

ciao

1. (Sappada) hello, hi, ciao

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

French

Alternative forms

• tchao

Etymology

From Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetian ciao (“hullo, goodbye; your (humble) servant”), from Venetian s-ciao (“servant, slave”) or s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and old Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a.o/, /t?aw/

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

Synonyms

• adieu
• au revoir
• salut
• tschüs

Further reading

• “ciao” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Alternative forms

• tschau

Etymology

From Italian ciao from Venetian ciao, ultimately from Latin sclavus. Doublet of Sklave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??a??]

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

Further reading

• “ciao” in Duden online

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ao/

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

Synonyms

• adeo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian s-ciao, sciavo (“slave”) (in particular the expression s-ciao vostro, literally meaning "(I am) your slave" but in essence meaning "I am at your service", or "your humble servant"), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”) (whence also standard Italian schiavo); in the Venetian language originally pronounced /st?a?/. Development and use is similar to the Southern German and Central European greeting of servus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a.o/
• Hyphenation: cià?o

Interjection

ciao!

1. hello!

   Synonyms: salve (formal), buongiorno

2. goodbye!

   Synonyms: arrivederla (formal), arrivederci, ci vediamo (colloquial)

   • Early 1940s, written by an unknown Italian partisan, Bella Ciao (Goodbye, beautiful!):

Derived terms

• ciao ciao

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: tschau, tschavò
• ? Bavarian: ciao
• ? Bulgarian: ???? (?áo)
• ? Czech: ?au
• ? Esperanto: ?a?
• ? Dutch: tjo
• ? Estonian: tšau, tsau, tšauki, tsauki
• ? French: ciao, tchao
• ? German: tschau, ciao
• ? Hungarian: csaó, csá
• ? Interlingua: ciao
• ? Japanese: ??? (chao)
• ? Latvian: ?au
• ? Macedonian: ??? (?ao)
• ? Maltese: ?aw
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: ciao
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: ciao
• ? Polish: ciao
• ? Portuguese: tchau
• ? Russian: ???? (?áo)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ???

  Latin: ?ao

• ? Slovak: ?au
• ? Slovene: ?áo
• ? Spanish: chao, chau
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (?áo)

Further reading

• ciao on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Caio

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”) (as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages), from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slov?nin?. Doublet of slave and slaver.

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian ciao, from Venetian sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”). This in turn is from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slov?nin?, as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. Doublet of slave and slavar.

Interjection

ciao

1. ciao

   Synonyms: adjø, farvel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciao.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??au/

Interjection

ciao!

1. Hello!
2. Goodbye!

Spanish

Interjection

ciao

1. Alternative spelling of chau