-ios
Portuguese, suffix/ˈi.us/
-ios is spelled I-O-S (3 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -ios is a Portuguese masculine suffix meaning “masculine plural of -io” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does -ios mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of -io
- 2
plural of -io
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ilha grega das Cíclades, no Mar Egeu
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.
How do you pronounce -ios?
- Brazil /ˈi.us/
- Brazil /ˈiws/
- Brazil [ˈiʊ̯s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is -ios in Portuguese?
-ios appears 12 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).