gaio
Italian (Fiorentino)
adj
Definitions
- gay (original meaning), cheerful, happy
- bright (colours)
Etymology
Derived from Latin vagus (wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant).
Origin
Latin
vagus
Gloss
wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anti-gay English
- begay English
- de-gay English
- ex-gay English
- gaily English
- gay English
- gay cancer English
- gay-ass English
- gay-hate English
- gay-related immune deficiency English
- gay-related immunodeficiency English
- gaybait English
- gaybeseen English
- gayboy English
- gaydom English
- gayface English
- gayfag English
- gayfeather English
- gayfolk English
- gayful English
- gayhood English
- gayification English
- gayify English
- gayish English
- gayism English
- gayless English
- gaylicious English
- gayly English
- gayness English
- gayola English
- gayphobe English
- gayphobia English
- gayphobic English
- gaysome English
- gayspeak English
- gaysploitation English
- gaytard English
- gaytastic English
- gaywad English
- gaywings English
- gold star gay English
- homogay English
- nongay English
- nosegay English
- outgay English
- postgay English
- pro-gay English
- re-gay English
- transgay English
- ungay English
- vagus English
- gay Finnish
- Venerivagus Latin
- arenivagus Latin
- circumvagus Latin
- fluctivagus Latin
- harenivagus Latin
- ignivagus Latin
- ludivagus Latin
- lustrivagus Latin
- montivagus Latin
- multivagus Latin
- mundivagus Latin
- nemorivagus Latin
- noctivagus Latin
- nubivagus Latin
- paludivagus Latin
- pervagus Latin
- pontivagus Latin
- remivagus Latin
- solivagus Latin
- undivagus Latin
- vagor Latin
- vagus Latin
- vulgivagus Latin
- gay German
- gaiamente Italian
- gaiezza Italian
- vago Italian
- antigai French
- gai French
- gay French
- gaîté French
- vague French
- gay Spanish, Castilian
- vag Norwegian Bokmål
- gay Portuguese
- noctívago Portuguese
- vago Portuguese
- ゲイ Japanese
- vag Norwegian Nynorsk
- gay Middle English
- gai Old French
- gaja Esperanto
- gai Catalan, Valencian
- vague Catalan, Valencian
- गे Hindi
- gay Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- เกย์ Thai
- γκέι Greek (modern)
- gey Turkish
- gèidh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- vague Middle French
- gey Azerbaijani
- *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- געי Yiddish
- გეი Georgian
- gay蜜 Chinese
- 基 Chinese
- 基佬 Chinese
- 鈣片 Chinese
- ґей Ukrainian
- 게이 Korean
- *wagos Proto-Italic
- gey Scots
- *gāhi Frankish
- *wāhi Frankish
- gėjus Lithuanian
- gai Old Occitan
- گے Urdu