Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant”), from Venetan s-ciao / s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetan S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavus, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Not related to Vietnamese chào (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of Slav and slave.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: chow

ciao

1. Hello, hi.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello

2. Bye, goodbye.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye

ciao (plural ciaos)

1. A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
   • 2010, Robert V. Camuto, Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey, page 16:

     […] he excused himself, disappearing in a cloud of ciaos and operatic Italian.

   • 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Bahamas For Dummies, page 196:

     You hear more ciaos than hellos. Guests play bocce ball on the beach and dine on Italian and some Bahamian cuisine. Because of its strong Continental overlay, the cuisine is better here than at your typical Grand Bahama hotel.

In UK and in US usage, ciao is considered pretentious by some.

• ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Coia, ICAO

ciao

1. (Sappada) hello, hi, ciao

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

• tchao

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), from Venetan ciao (“hello, goodbye; your (humble) servant”), from Venetan s-ciao (“servant, slave”) or s-ciavo (“servant, slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“Slav, slave”), related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and Old Venetan S-ciavón (“Slav”), from Latin Sclavonia (“Slavonia”).

• IPA^(key): /tʃa.o/, /tʃaw/

• Audio:

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ciao

1. ciao

   Synonyms: adieu, au revoir, salut, tschüs

• “ciao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tschau

Borrowed from Italian ciao from Venetan ciao, ultimately from Latin sclavus. Doublet of Sklave and Slawe.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃaʊ̯]

• Audio:

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ciao

1. ciao

• “ciao” in Duden online
• “ciao” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

ciao

1. ciao

• adeo

Borrowed from Venetan s-ciao, sciavo (“slave”) (in particular the expression s-ciao vostro (literally “(I am) your slave”), in essence meaning "I am at your service", or "your humble servant"), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”) (whence also standard Italian schiavo); in the Venetan language originally pronounced /stʃaʊ/. Development and use is similar to the Southern German and Central European greeting of servus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.o/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: cià‧o

ciao

1. hello!

   Synonyms: salve (formal), buongiorno

2. goodbye!

   Synonyms: arrivederla (formal), arrivederci, ci vediamo (colloquial)

   • Early 1940s, written by an unknown Italian partisan, Bella Ciao (Goodbye, beautiful!):

     È questo il fiore del partigiano,
     o bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
     È questo il fiore del partigiano,
     morto per la libertà!

     This is the flower of the partisan,
     Oh beautiful, goodbye! Beautiful, goodbye! Beautiful, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!
     This is the flower of the partisan,
     Who died for freedom!

• ciao ciao

• → Alemannic German: tschau, tschavò
• → Bavarian: ciao
• → Bulgarian: ча́о (čáo)
• → Czech: čau
• → Dutch: tjo
• → Esperanto: ĉaŭ
• → Estonian: tšau, tsau, tšauki, tsauki
• → Finnish: tsau, tsaukki
• → French: ciao, tchao
• → German: tschau, ciao
• → Hungarian: csaó, csá
• → Interlingua: ciao
• → Japanese: チャオ (chao)
• → Latvian: čau
• → Macedonian: чао (čao)
• → Maltese: ċaw
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ciao
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ciao
• → Polish: ciao
• → Portuguese: tchau, chau, xau (Portugal), ciao (dated)
• → Russian: ча́о (čáo)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћао

  Latin script: ćao

• → Slovak: čau
• → Slovene: čáo
• → Spanish: chao, chau
• → Turkish: çav
• → Ukrainian: ча́о (čáo)

• ciao on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• ciao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Caio

From Italian ciao, from Venetan sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”) (as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ. Doublet of slave and slaver.

ciao

1. ciao

From Italian ciao, from Venetan sciavo (“slave”), from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”). This in turn is from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, as Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. Doublet of slave and slavar.

ciao

1. ciao

   Synonyms: adjø, farvel

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:

ciao

Wikipedia ^ro

Borrowed from Italian ciao.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃau/

ciao!

1. Hello!
2. Goodbye!

ciao

1. Alternative spelling of chao