Tokio
English
    
    Proper noun
    
Tokio
- Obsolete spelling of Tokyo.
- 1882, William Elliot Griffis, “Preface”, in Corea: The Hermit Nation, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page vii:
- I also thank Mr. Charles Lanman, Secretary of the Legation of Japan in Washington, for four ferrotypes taken in Seoul in 1878 by members of the Japanese embassy ; Mr. D. R. Clark, of the United States Transit of Venus Survey, for four photographs of the Corean villages in Russian Manchuria ; Mr. R. Idéura, of Tōkiō, for a set of photographs of Kang-wa and vicinity, taken in 1876, and Mr. Ozawa Nankoku, for sketches of Corean articles in Japanese museums.
 
 - 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- […] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
 
 
 
Usage notes
    
- This spelling was more common in the 1870s and 1880s but had been overtaken by Tokyo the 1890s.[1]
 
References
    
Anagrams
    
Afrikaans
    
    Alternative forms
    
Derived terms
    
- Tokioïet
 - Tokioos
 
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
    
    
Czech
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈtokɪjo]
 
Proper noun
    
Tokio n (related adjective tokijský, demonym Tokijan or Tokijec)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
 
Declension
    
Dutch
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtoːkiˌ(j)oː/
 Audio (file) - Hyphenation: To‧ki‧o
 
Derived terms
    
Esperanto
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [toˈkio]
 - Audio: 
(file)  - Rhymes: -io
 - Hyphenation: To‧ki‧o
 
Finnish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtokio/, [ˈt̪o̞k̟io̞]
 - Rhymes: -okio
 - Syllabification(key): To‧ki‧o
 
Declension
    
| Inflection of Tokio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Tokio | — | ||
| genitive | Tokion | — | ||
| partitive | Tokiota | — | ||
| illative | Tokioon | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Tokio | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Tokio | — | |
| gen. | Tokion | |||
| genitive | Tokion | — | ||
| partitive | Tokiota | — | ||
| inessive | Tokiossa | — | ||
| elative | Tokiosta | — | ||
| illative | Tokioon | — | ||
| adessive | Tokiolla | — | ||
| ablative | Tokiolta | — | ||
| allative | Tokiolle | — | ||
| essive | Tokiona | — | ||
| translative | Tokioksi | — | ||
| abessive | Tokiotta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
    
German
    
    Alternative forms
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtoːki̯o/, [ˈtoː.ki.o], [-.kjo]
 Audio (file) 
Proper noun
    
Tokio n (proper noun, genitive Tokios or (optionally with an article) Tokio)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
 
Italian
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.kjo/
 - Rhymes: -ɔkjo
 - Hyphenation: Tò‧kio
 
Latin
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtoː.ki.oː/, [ˈt̪oːkioː]
 - (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.ki.o/, [ˈt̪ɔːkio]
 
Synonyms
    
Polish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.kjɔ/
 Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔkjɔ
 - Syllabification: To‧kio
 
Romanian
    
    
Slovak
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔkiɔ/
 
Proper noun
    
Tokio n (genitive singular Tokia, declension pattern of mesto)
- Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)
 
Declension
    
Related terms
    
- Tokijčan, Tokijčanka
 - tokijský
 
Further reading
    
- “Tokio”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
 
Spanish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtokjo/ [ˈt̪o.kjo]
 - Rhymes: -okjo
 - Syllabification: To‧kio
 
Derived terms
    
Western Huasteca Nahuatl
    
    
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