Tokio
English
Proper noun
Tokio
- Obsolete spelling of Tokyo.
- 1882, William Elliot Griffis, “Preface”, in Corea: The Hermit Nation, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page vii:
- I also thank Mr. Charles Lanman, Secretary of the Legation of Japan in Washington, for four ferrotypes taken in Seoul in 1878 by members of the Japanese embassy ; Mr. D. R. Clark, of the United States Transit of Venus Survey, for four photographs of the Corean villages in Russian Manchuria ; Mr. R. Idéura, of Tōkiō, for a set of photographs of Kang-wa and vicinity, taken in 1876, and Mr. Ozawa Nankoku, for sketches of Corean articles in Japanese museums.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- […] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
Usage notes
- This spelling was more common in the 1870s and 1880s but had been overtaken by Tokyo the 1890s.[1]
References
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- Tokioïet
- Tokioos
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtokɪjo]
Proper noun
Tokio n (related adjective tokijský, demonym Tokijan or Tokijec)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
Declension
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoːkiˌ(j)oː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: To‧ki‧o
Derived terms
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [toˈkio]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: To‧ki‧o
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtokio/, [ˈt̪o̞k̟io̞]
- Rhymes: -okio
- Syllabification(key): To‧ki‧o
Declension
Inflection of Tokio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Tokio | — | ||
genitive | Tokion | — | ||
partitive | Tokiota | — | ||
illative | Tokioon | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Tokio | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Tokio | — | |
gen. | Tokion | |||
genitive | Tokion | — | ||
partitive | Tokiota | — | ||
inessive | Tokiossa | — | ||
elative | Tokiosta | — | ||
illative | Tokioon | — | ||
adessive | Tokiolla | — | ||
ablative | Tokiolta | — | ||
allative | Tokiolle | — | ||
essive | Tokiona | — | ||
translative | Tokioksi | — | ||
abessive | Tokiotta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoːki̯o/, [ˈtoː.ki.o], [-.kjo]
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Tokio n (proper noun, genitive Tokios or (optionally with an article) Tokio)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.kjo/
- Rhymes: -ɔkjo
- Hyphenation: Tò‧kio
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtoː.ki.oː/, [ˈt̪oːkioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.ki.o/, [ˈt̪ɔːkio]
Synonyms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.kjɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔkjɔ
- Syllabification: To‧kio
Romanian
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔkiɔ/
Proper noun
Tokio n (genitive singular Tokia, declension pattern of mesto)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
Declension
Related terms
- Tokijčan, Tokijčanka
- tokijský
Further reading
- “Tokio”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtokjo/ [ˈt̪o.kjo]
- Rhymes: -okjo
- Syllabification: To‧kio
Derived terms
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
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