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feminine

/ˈraðjo/

Line drawing of radio
Coloured illustration of radio
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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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This word is part of lesson 19.