saio

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• IPA^(key): /s̺ai̯o/ [s̺ai̯.o]
• Rhymes: -ai̯o, -o
• Hyphenation: sai‧o

saio inan

1. attempt, try, effort

   Synonym: ahalegin

2. session

   Synonym: irratsaio

3. essay

• saiatu (“try”)

• “saio”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “saio”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sagium, from Latin sagum, cognate of Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos); probably from Paleo-Hispanic (Apian wrote that the word was considered proper of the Celts of Iberia) and ultimately from Celtic.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈsajʊ]

saio m (plural saios)

1. robe
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     E como està o afillado?
     Christobo:
     Esse jà quer ir a Escola,
     pero porque non tèn sayo
     està decote na Eyra
     para escorrentar o Gando.

     Afonso:
     How is doing my godchild?
     Christobo:
     He already want to go to school,
     but since he has no robe
     is all the time in the field
     for driving away the livestock.

   • 1820, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Os servís e os liberás:

     Palurdos que vos vestides,
     Como eu, de sayo de lá,
     Polainas, zocos, monteira,
     E un bo baloco na man

     Rustics that wear,
     as myself, with a woolen robe,
     gaiters, clogs, cap
     and a good staff in hand

• saia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

saio

1. first-person singular present indicative of saír
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of sair

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sayo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “saio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “saio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Old French saie, from Latin sagum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.jo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: sà‧io

saio m (plural sai)

1. habit (worn by a monk)

• saio in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• saio in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• saio in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• saio in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• saio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Iosa, iosa, oasi, osai, soia

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaj.joː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.jo]

saiō m (genitive saiōnis); third declension

1. A sort of torturer or executioner
2. An usher

Third-declension noun.

• saio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: sai‧o

saio

1. first-person singular present indicative of sair