la
feminine
/ˈraðjo/
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Translation
radio
Word origin
From Latin radius ('ray, spoke of a wheel'); the broadcasting sense is a twentieth-century shortening of radiotelegrafía. The same root gives English radius, radio and radiate.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- radius
- English cognates
- radius, radio, radiate
Grammar
Genderfeminine
Pluralradios
Examples
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I listen to the radio every morning in the car.
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The radio announced a storm.
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Turn the radio up, please, I cannot hear well.
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My father puts the radio on every morning in the car.
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The car radio stopped working yesterday.
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As a child I listened to the radio before sleeping.
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