cio
Portuguese, noun/ˈsi.u/
cio is spelled C-I-O (3 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,561st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “período de maior apetite sexual e fertilidade de certos animais”.
What does cio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)
A gata está no cio.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. período de maior apetite sexual e fertilidade de certos animais 2. viço; vigor das plantas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cio
- cios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cio?
- Brazil /ˈsi.u/
- Brazil /ˈsiw/
- Brazil [ˈsiʊ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cio in Portuguese?
cio appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).