ciao
English
/tʃaʊ/
interj
Definitions
- hello, hi.
- bye, goodbye.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ciao (goodbye, hello, hi) derived from Venetian ciao (goodbye, hello, your servant) derived from sclavus (Slav, slave).
Origin
sclavus
Gloss
Slav, slave
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Balto-Slav English
- Slav English
- Slavdom English
- Slavhood English
- Slavisation English
- Slavism English
- Slavistics English
- Slavization English
- Slavness English
- Slavonia English
- Sclavonia Latin
- sclavus Latin
- ciao German
- tschau German
- csaó Hungarian
- ciao Italian
- ciaone Italian
- schiavesco Italian
- schiavetto Italian
- schiavista Italian
- schiavizzare Italian
- schiavo Italian
- tjo Dutch, Flemish
- esclave French
- чао Russian
- chau Spanish, Castilian
- ciao Norwegian Bokmål
- tchau Portuguese
- ciao Norwegian Nynorsk
- sclave Middle English
- Slavach Irish
- Slavais Irish
- ĉaŭ Esperanto
- ćao Serbo-Croatian
- ћао Serbo-Croatian
- chau Galician
- ciao Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- สลาฟ Thai
- чао Bulgarian
- чао Macedonian
- čau Slovak
- tschau Alemannic German
- tschavò Alemannic German
- 슬라브 Korean
- ċaw Maltese
- čao Slovene
- ciao Venetian
- s-ciao Venetian
- sciavo Venetian
- ciao Interlingua
- sclavus ML