irio

English

Noun

irio (uncountable)

  1. (Kenya) A Kenyan dish of mashed potatoes, maize, and other vegetables.
    • 2010, Barbara Sheen, Foods of Kenya, page 21:
      There are almost as many ways to prepare irio as there are Kenyan cooks. Irio almost always starts with potatoes, corn, and beans, but then Kenyan cooks add any number of other ingredients to the dish. Spinach, fried onions, vegetables, […]

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũrĩa (“to eat”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ìɾiɔ̌ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

irio class 8[1]

  1. food

Derived terms
  • irio hĩu itiumaga mbũri

See also
  • rĩgu

References
  1. “irio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 390. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

īriō m or f (genitive īriōnis); third declension

  1. a siliquose plant, probably a member of the genera Barbarea (wintercress or yellow rocket) or Sisymbrium (comprising several species of mustard and rocket)
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:irio.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īriō īriōnēs
Genitive īriōnis īriōnum
Dative īriōnī īriōnibus
Accusative īriōnem īriōnēs
Ablative īriōne īriōnibus
Vocative īriō īriōnēs

Synonyms

References
  • “īrĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • īrĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 856/3.
  • “Īriō” on page 966/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  1. Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “irio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 718

Portuguese

Verb

irio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of iriar
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