lio

Suggested by Schütz to be a shortening of ʻīlio "dog" extended to any quadruped,^[1][2] thus from Tuamotuan kurio, a variant of kuri from Proto-Polynesian *kuli.^[3][1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.o/, [ˈli.jo]

lio

1. horse

From Ancient Greek λειόω (leióō, “make smooth”) (see λεῖος (leîos)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.oː/, [ˈlʲiːoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.o/, [ˈliːo]

līō (present infinitive līāre, perfect active līāvī, supine līātum); first conjugation

1. to smooth
2. to plaster over

• liāculum

• “līo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lio m (plural lios)

1. sheaf; bundle (collection of things bound together)

   Synonym: feixe

lio

1. first-person singular present indicative of liar

• IPA^(key): /ˈljo/ [ˈljo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: lio

lio

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of liar

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• IPA^(key): /liˈo/

lio

1. how
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Lio stom binon-li?

     What is the weather like? [lit. How is the weather?]