ceo

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

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

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

Inherited from Latin citō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeo/, [ˈθe.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Hyphenation: ce‧o

ceo

1. early
2. soon

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

• ceio

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɛʊ], [ˈθɛʊ̯], (western) [ˈsɛʊ̯]

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

• ceo da boca (“roof of the mouth”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ceo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ceo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ceo”, 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), “ceo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ceo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

ceo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cear

From Old Irish céo,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *kiwos (“fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-wó-s (“gray”), see also Sanskrit श्याव (śyāva), Persian سیاه (siyâh, “black”), Russian сивый (sivyj, “grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Old English hīew (modern English hue).^[2]

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /coː/^[3][4]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /cɔː/^[5]

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

   Níl tú ag insint ceo den fhírinne dhom.

   You aren’t telling me a word of the truth.

Archaic or dialectal forms:

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

• ceo bruithne
• toitcheo (“smog”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceo”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ceo”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 133

• ċīo
• ċēa — normalised

From Proto-West Germanic *kahwu, probably ultimately imitative.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe͜oː/

ċēo f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ceahhe

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

ceo

1. Alternative form of ço

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

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ʊ/

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 154 (facsimile):

     Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃.

     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
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 426 (facsimile):

     Subiu ao ceo. o fillo / de deꝯ. por dar paray.ſaos amigo^s ſeꝯ

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

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

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of céu.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora:

     Tocou o braço da mulher, apontou o ceo, ficaram os dois algum tempo aguentando a claridade do sol.

     He touched his wife’s arm, pointed at the sky, and the two stayed for some time putting up with the sun’s brightness.

• cȉo, cijȇl (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cělъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *káilas.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sêo/

cȅo (Cyrillic spelling це̏о, definite cȇlī)

1. whole

   Celo je vreme tamo ležala. ― She lay there the whole time.

   • 1993, Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics and music), “Ovo je Balkan”, in Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics), Muzika na struju‎^[2], performed by Bajaga i Instruktori, Produkcija Stig:

     Ovo je ovde Balkan,
     Mirisni cvet,
     Totalno nerazumljiv za ceo svet.
     I svako može biti
     Dušman i brat
     Svakih pedeset leta izbija rat.

     This here is the Balkans
     A scented flower
     Completely incomprehensible for the whole world
     And anyone can be
     Enemy and brother
     Every fifty years erupts the war

2. entire, complete

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

1. small
2. minute

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