A radio receiver from 2000.
Short for radiotelegraphy.
radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)
- (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
send a message by radio
- (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
We heard a lovely song on the radio.
- (countable) An on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media; see also car radio.
2018 February 6, Jonathan Amos, “Elon Musk's huge Falcon Heavy rocket set for launch”, in BBC News[1], London, United Kingdom: BBC, retrieved 2018-02-07:David Bowie's classic hit Space Oddity will be looping on the radio as the car is hurled into an elliptical orbit that stretches out to Mars' orbit around the Sun.
- (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
- (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
- → Japanese: ラジオ (rajio)
- → Hokkien: (Malaysia, Singapore) 黎撩 (lê-liô)
technology
- Afrikaans: radio
- Albanian: radio (sq) m
- Amharic: ራዲዮ (radiyo)
- Arabic: رَادْيُو m (rādyū, rādyō), رَادِيُو m (rādiyū, rādiyō) (rare), مِذْيَاع m (miḏyāʕ)
- Egyptian Arabic: راديو m (radyu, radyo)
- Hijazi Arabic: راديو m (rādyu)
- Armenian: ռադիո (hy) (ṙadio)
- Assamese: ৰেডিঅ (redio), ৰেডিঅ’ (redió)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܩܵܠܵܐ m (prāsqālā)
- Asturian: radio (ast) f
- Basque: irrati
- Belarusian: ра́дыё n (rádyjo)
- Bengali: রেডিও (bn) (reḍiō), বেতার (bn) (bētār)
- Bikol Central: radyo
- Bole: rediyo
- Breton: radio (br) m, skingomz (br) f
- Bulgarian: ра́дио (bg) n (rádio), радиопреда́ване (bg) n (radiopredávane)
- Burmese: ရေဒီယို (my) (rediyui)
- Catalan: ràdio (ca) f
- Cebuano: radyo
- Cherokee: ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ (gawonisgi)
- Chichewa: wailesi
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 無線電/無綫電/无线电 (mou4 sin3 din6)
- Dungan: вущяндян (vuxi͡andi͡an), радио (radio)
- Hokkien: 無線電/無綫電/无线电 (bô-sòaⁿ-tiān)
- Mandarin: 無線電/無綫電/无线电 (wúxiàndiàn)
- Cornish: radyo m
- Corsican: radiò f
- Czech: rádio (cs) n, rozhlas (cs) m
- Danish: radiofoni (da), radio (da)
- Esperanto: radiofonio, radio (eo)
- Estonian: raadio (et)
- Farefare: walsɩ
- Faroese: útvarp n
- Finnish: radio (fi), radiotekniikka
- French: radio (fr) f, radiodiffusion (fr) f
- Galician: radio (gl) f
- Georgian: რადიო (radio)
- German: (broadcasting) Radio (de) n, Hörfunk (de) m; (with several transmitters, e.g. police) Funk (de) m
- Greek: ραδιόφωνο (el) n (radiófono), ράδιο (el) n (rádio) (colloquial)
- Gujarati: રેડિયો (reḍiyo)
- Haitian Creole: radyo
- Hausa: rediyo (ha)
- Hebrew: רַדְיוֹ (he) m (rádyo)
- Hindi: रेडियो (hi) m (reḍiyo)
- Hungarian: rádió (hu)
- Icelandic: útvarp (is) n
- Ido: radio (io)
- Ilocano: radio
- Indonesian: radio (id), peti bicara (id)
- Irish: raidió m
- Italian: radio (it) f
- Japanese: ラジオ (ja) (rajio)
- Kannada: ರೇಡಿಯೋ (kn) (rēḍiyō), ಬಾನುಲಿ (kn) (bānuli)
- Kazakh: радио (kk) (radio)
- Khakas: радио (radio)
- Khmer: វិទ្យុ (km) (vityuʼ), រ៉ាឌីយោ (raadiiyoo)
- Korean: 라디오 (ko) (radio), 라지오 (ko) (rajio) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: radyo (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: радио (ky) (radio)
- Lao: ວິທະຍຸ (wi tha nyu)
- Latin: radiophonia f
- Latvian: radio (lv)
- Lithuanian: radijas (lt)
- Luxembourgish: Funk m
- Macedonian: радио n (radio)
- Malay: radio
- Malayalam: റേഡിയോ (ml) (ṟēḍiyō)
- Marathi: रेडिओ (reḍio)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: радио (mn) (radio)
- Mongolian: ᠷᠠᠳ᠋ᠢᠣ᠋ (radio)
- Navajo: níłchʼi bee haneʼé
- Nepali: रेडियो (reḍiyo)
- Norman: radio m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: radio (no) m
- Nynorsk: radio (nn) m
- Odia: ରେଡ଼ିଓ (or) (reṛio)
- Pashto: راډيو (ps) f (rāḍio)
- Persian: رادِیُو (fa) (râdiyo)
- Plautdietsch: Radio n
- Polish: radio (pl) n
- Portuguese: rádio (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਰੇਡੀਓ (reḍīo)
- Quechua: ankichiy
- Romanian: radio (ro)
- Russian: ра́дио (ru) n (rádio), радиовеща́ние (ru) n (radioveščánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: rèidio m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ра̑дио m
- Roman: rȃdio (sh) m
- Sinhalese: ගුවන්විදුලිය (si) (guwanwiduliya)
- Slovak: rádio n
- Slovene: radio (sl) n
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: radijo n
- Spanish: radio (es) f
- Swahili: redio (sw)
- Swedish: radio (sv) c
- Tagalog: radyo
- Tajik: радио (tg) (radio)
- Tamil: வானொலி (ta) (vāṉoli)
- Tatar: радио (radio)
- Telugu: రేడియో (te) (rēḍiyō)
- Thai: วิทยุ (th) (wít-tá-yú)
- Tibetan: རླུང་འཕྲིན (rlung 'phrin)
- Tigrinya: ራድዮ (radyo)
- Turkish: radyo (tr)
- Turkmen: radio
- Tuvan: радио (radio)
- Ukrainian: ра́діо n (rádio)
- Urdu: ریڈِیو m (reḍiyo), (please verify) مشعہ, بے تار (be-tār)
- Uyghur: رادىئو (radi'o)
- Uzbek: radio (uz)
- Vietnamese: ra-đi-ô (vi) truyền thanh (vi), vô tuyến truyền thanh (無線傳聲), vô tuyến điện
- Welsh: radio (cy) m
- Written Oirat: ᠷᠠᡑᡅᡕᡆ (radiyo)
- Yakut: радио (radio)
- Yiddish: ראַדיאָ m (radyo)
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- Afrikaans: draadloos, radio, radio
- Albanian: radio (sq)
- Amharic: ራዲዮ (radiyo)
- Arabic: رَادْيُو m (rādyū, rādyō), رَادِيُو m (rādiyū, rādiyō) (rare), مِذْيَاع m (miḏyāʕ)
- Egyptian Arabic: راديو m (radyu, radyo)
- Armenian: ռադիո (hy) (ṙadio)
- Asturian: radio (ast) f
- Basque: irrati
- Belarusian: ра́дыё n (rádyjo), радыёпрыё́мнік m (radyjopryjómnik)
- Bole: rediyo
- Breton: radio (br) m, skingomzer (br) m
- Bulgarian: радиоприе́мник (bg) m (radiopriémnik), ра́дио (bg) n (rádio)
- Burmese: ရေဒီယို (my) (rediyui)
- Catalan: ràdio (ca) f
- Cebuano: radyo
- Central Dusun: rodiu
- Chichewa: wayilesi
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 收音機/收音机 (sau1 jam1 gei1)
- Hakka: 收音機/收音机 (sû-yîm-kî), 啦濟喲/啦济哟 (là-chi-yó)
- Hokkien: 收音機/收音机 (zh-min-nan) (siu-im-ki), la-jí-o͘h (Taiwan), 黎撩 (lê-liô) (Malaysia, Singapore)
- Mandarin: 收音機/收音机 (zh) (shōuyīnjī), 無線電/無綫電/无线电 (wúxiàndiàn)
- Cornish: diwiver m, radyo m
- Corsican: radiò f
- Czech: rádio (cs) n, radiopřijímač m
- Danish: radio (da) c
- Dutch: radio (nl) m
- Estonian: raadio (et)
- Faroese: útvarpstól n
- Finnish: radio (fi), radiovastaanotin (fi)
- French: radio (fr) f
- German: Radio (de) n, Radioempfänger m, Funkempfänger m, Rundfunkempfangsgerät n, Rundfunkempfänger (de) m, Rundfunkgerät (de) n
- Greek: ραδιόφωνο (el) n (radiófono), ράδιο (el) n (rádio) (colloquial)
- Haitian Creole: radyo
- Hausa: rediyo (ha)
- Hebrew: רַדְיוֹ (he) m (rádyo)
- Hindi: रेडियो (hi) m (reḍiyo)
- Hungarian: rádió (hu)
- Icelandic: útvarpstæki (is) n
- Ido: radio (io)
- Ilocano: radio, radio
- Indonesian: penerima radio
- Italian: radio (it) f
- Japanese: 無線 (ja) (むせん, musen), ラジオ (ja) (rajio)
- Korean: 라디오 (ko) (radio), 무선(無線) (ko) (museon), 라지오 (ko) (rajio) (North Korea), 라디오 수신기 (受信機) (radio susin'gi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ڕادیۆ (radyo)
- Latin: radiophōnum n
- Latvian: radio (lv), radiouztvērējs m
- Lithuanian: radijas (lt) m
- Lü: ᦵᦌᦲᧁᧈᦍᦲᧃᧈᦋᦲᧈ (soew¹yiin¹tsii¹)
- Luxembourgish: Radio m
- Macedonian: радио n (radio), радиоприемник m (radiopriemnik), радиоапара́т m (radioaparát)
- Malay: radio, tetuang udara (obsolete)
- Navajo: béésh halneʼé, béésh hataałí
- Norman: radio m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: radio (no) m
- Nynorsk: radio (nn) m
- Persian: رادِیُو (fa) (râdiyo)
- Plautdietsch: Radio n
- Polish: radio (pl), radioodbiornik (pl)
- Portuguese: rádio (pt) m
- Romanian: radio (ro) n, radioreceptor (ro) n, aparat de radio n
- Russian: ра́дио (ru) n (rádio), радиоприёмник (ru) m (radioprijómnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: rèidio m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: радиопри́је̄мнӣк m, ра̑дио m
- Roman: radiopríjēmnīk (sh) m, rȃdio (sh) m
- Sinhalese: රේඩියෝ (si) (rēḍiyō)
- Slovak: rádio n, rádioprijímač n
- Slovene: radio (sl) n, radijski sprejemnik m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: radijo n
- Spanish: radio (es) f
- Swahili: redio (sw)
- Swedish: radio (sv) c, radioapparat (sv) c
- Tagalog: radyo
- Tamil: வானொலி (ta) (vāṉoli)
- Telugu: రేడియో (te) (rēḍiyō)
- Tumbuka: wayilesi
- Turkish: radyo (tr)
- Ukrainian: ра́діо n (rádio), радіоприйма́ч (uk) m (radiopryjmáč)
- Urdu: ریڈِیو m (reḍiyo)
- Uzbek: radiopriyomnik (uz)
- Vietnamese: ra-đi-ô (vi), máy thu thanh
- Welsh: radio (cy) m
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on-board entertainment system in a car
transmitter
- Afrikaans: radio
- Basque: irrati
- Belarusian: ра́дыё n (rádyjo), радыёперада́тчык m (radyjopjeradátčyk), радыёста́нцыя f (radyjostáncyja) (radio station)
- Bulgarian: радиопредава́тел m (radiopredavátel)
- Catalan: ràdio (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無線電發射機/無綫電發射機/无线电发射机 (wúxiàndiàn fāshèjī)
- Cornish: radyo m
- Czech: rádio (cs) n
- Danish: radiosender c
- Faroese: útvarpsstøð f
- Finnish: radio (fi), radiolähetin (fi)
- German: Rundfunksender (de) m, Radiosender (de) m, Funksender (de) m, Funkgerät (de) n
- Greek: ραδιόφωνο (el) n (radiófono)
- Indonesian: pemancar radio (id), tetuang udara (id) (archaic), tuang-tuang udara (archaic)
- Macedonian: радиопредавател m (radiopredavatel), радиостаница f (radiostanica)
- Malay: tetuang udara (archaic)
- Navajo: béésh halneʼé
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: radio (no) m
- Nynorsk: radio (nn) m
- Polish: radio (pl) n, radionadajnik m, radiostacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: rádio (pt) f
- Russian: ра́дио (ru) n (rádio), радиопереда́тчик (ru) m (radioperedátčik), ра́ция (ru) f (rácija), радиоста́нция (ru) f (radiostáncija)
- Scottish Gaelic: rèidio m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: радиоодашѝља̄ч m, ра̑дио m
- Roman: radioodašìljāč (sh) m, rȃdio (sh) m
- Slovak: vysielač m, vysielačka f
- Tamil: வானொலி அலைபரப்பி (vāṉoli alaiparappi)
- Ukrainian: ра́діо n (rádio), радіопередава́ч m (radioperedaváč), радіоста́нція f (radiostáncija) (radio station)
- Welsh: radio (cy) m
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broadcasting of sound via the Internet
Translations to be checked
radio (third-person singular simple present radios, present participle radioing, simple past and past participle radioed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
- I think the boat is sinking; we'd better radio for help. / I radioed him already. / Radio the coordinates this time. / OK. I radioed them the coordinates.
- (transitive) To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.
2002, Jack Dave, Death Bridge, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:“Could you call them here? I'd like to talk to them. Or if they're out in the field, radio them in.”
2006, Angie Morgan with Courtney Lynch, Leading from the front: no excuse leadership tactics for women, page 111:When I told him that they weren't back yet, he asked if we could radio them back early […] Radioing them in was fine with me.
2006, Kimberly Johnson, Amy's Secret, page 14:When she arrived, she was told that Tad wasn't there and to have a seat and wait while they radioed him in.
to use two-way radio to transmit
Borrowed from English radio.
radio (plural radio's)
- radio
radio f (plural radios)
- radio
From English radio.
radio (definite accusative radionu, plural radiolar)
- radio
- IPA(key): /radio/ [ra.ð̞i.o]
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o
Borrowed from Spanish radio (“radium”), from French radium.
radio inan
- radium
Declension of radio (inanimate, singular only, ending in vowel)
Borrowed from Spanish radio (“radio”).
radio inan
- Nonstandard form of erradio (“radius”).
Declension of radio (inanimate, ending in vowel)
Compare English radio.
radio
- radio
Declension of radio
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radioğa
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radionı
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radioda
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radiodan
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- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
radio c (singular definite radioen, plural indefinite radioer)
- (technology) radio
Borrowed from English radio, from Latin radius. Doublet of radius.
- IPA(key): /ˈraːdijoː/
- Hyphenation: ra‧dio
radio m (plural radio's, diminutive radiootje n)
- radio, tuner
- IPA(key): [raˈdio]
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o
radio (accusative singular radion, plural radioj, accusative plural radiojn)
- radio
- radius
- ray
< Swedish radio (“radio”) or English radio
- IPA(key): /ˈrɑdio/, [ˈrɑ̝dio̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑdio
- Syllabification(key): ra‧di‧o
radio
- radio (technology)
- radio (receiver or transmitter)
- radio (type of media)
- (in compounds) radio- (of or pertaining to radiowaves)
An abbreviation of words like radiotélégramme, radiotélégraphiste, radiodiffusion, etc. Compare English radio.
radio f (plural radios)
- radio, tuner
An abbreviation based on words beginning with the root radio-. Compare English radio.
radio m (plural radios)
- radio
Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.
radio m (plural radios)
- (uncountable) radium
Learned borrowing from Latin radius.
radio m (plural radios)
- radius (of a circular object)
- (anatomy) radius (bone in the forearm)
From radiar + -o.
radio (plural radii)
- ray, beam, gleam
- radio (device)
- (geometry) radius
- spoke (of a wheel)
- (ichthyology) ray, skate
Borrowed from Spanish radio.
- IPA(key): /ˈɾadjo/ [ˈɾɐ.d͡ʒo]
- Hyphenation: rad‧io
radio
- radio
From Dutch radio, from English radio, from Latin radius.
- IPA(key): [ˈrad̪io̯]
- Hyphenation: ra‧dio
radio (first-person possessive radioku, second-person possessive radiomu, third-person possessive radionya)
- radio
- Synonyms: peti bicara, peti ngomong
radio
- radio
Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, razzo, and rai, the first two of which were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed from Occitan.
radio m (plural radi)
- (anatomy) radius
- Synonyms: radiale, osso radiale
- (obsolete) Alternative form of raggio
Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.
radio m (plural radi)
- (chemistry) radium
Abbreviation. Compare English radio.
radio f (invariable)
- radio
radio
- first-person singular present indicative of radiare
From radius (“spoke of a wheel”) + -ō.
radiō (present infinitive radiāre, perfect active radiāvī, supine radiātum); first conjugation
- (active voice) to cause to radiate, irradiate
- (passive voice) to radiate, emit beams
radiō
- dative/ablative singular of radium
- "radio", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "radio", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Borrowed from English radio.
radio m (plural radios)
- radio
radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioer, definite plural radioene)
- (a) radio
radio m (definite singular radioen, indefinite plural radioar, definite plural radioane)
- radio
1926, Olav Langeland, Rikare liv:Det vedunderet som me no kallar radio, hev synt det endå klårare. Det er ljosbylgjor som er so små og snøgge, og sume so langsame at ikkje noko menneskjeauga kann uppfanga dei.- The miracle that we now call radio has shown this even clearer. It is light waves that are so small and fast, and some so slow that no human eye can perceive them.
Borrowed from French radio.
- IPA(key): /ˈra.djɔ/
- Rhymes: -adjɔ
- Syllabification: ra‧dio
radio n (diminutive radyjko, related adjective radiowy)
- radio (a device that can receive the signal sent over radio waves)
- Synonyms: radioodbiornik, odbiornik radiowy
- radio station
- Synonyms: rozgłośnia, radiostacja, stacja radiowa
- radio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- radio in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Borrowed from French radio, German Radio; compare also English radio.
radio n (plural radiouri)
- radio
- IPA(key): /râːdio/
- Hyphenation: ra‧di‧o
rȃdio m (Cyrillic spelling ра̑дио)
- radio
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
radio (Cyrillic spelling радио)
- masculine singular active past participle of raditi
- IPA(key): /ˈradjo/ [ˈra.ð̞jo]
- Rhymes: -adjo
- Syllabification: ra‧dio
Clipping of radiorreceptor.
radio m or f same meaning (plural radios)
- (electronics, home appliance) radio (device)
- Usually feminine, but often used as masculine in much of Latin America.
Clipping of radiotransmisión and/or radiodifusora.
radio f (plural radios)
- (communication) radio (industry, signal)
Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of rayo.
radio m (plural radios)
- (anatomy) radius
- (geometry) radius
Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.
radio m (plural radios)
- (chemistry) radium
radio
- first-person singular present indicative of radiar
radio (n class, plural radio)
- Alternative form of redio
From English radio.
radio c
- (uncountable) radio (communication using radio waves)
- radio; receiver (device for receiving broadcast radio signals)
Declension of radio 1.
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radio (definite accusative radiony, plural radiolar)
- radio
radio (plural radiolar)
- radio
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
radio
- radio
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “радио”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
From English radio.
radio m (plural radios, not mutable)
- radio
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “radio”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies