Definitions for ciaotʃaʊ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ciaotʃaʊ(interj.)
(used as a word of greeting or parting.)
Category: Foreign Term
Origin of ciao:
1925–30; < It, < Upper It; cf. Venetian schiavo lit., slave < ML sclāvusslave (orig. in a phrase analogous to It servo suo! your servant!)
Princeton's WordNet
aloha, ciao(noun)
an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)
Wiktionary
ciao(Interjection)
hello, hi (especially US), howdy (US).
ciao(Interjection)
bye, goodbye.
Origin: From ciao ("hello, goodbye"), from ciao ("hello, goodbye, your (humble) servant"), from s-ciao / s-ciavo ("servant, slave"), from sclavus, related also to Italian schiavo, English Slav, slave and old Venetian S-ciavón ("Slav"), from Latin Sclavonia ("Slavonia").
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