ciao

     

The wor ciao (pronounced "chaow" /tʃao/) is an informal Italian verbal salutation or greeting, meaning either "goodbye" or "hello". Originally from the Venetian language, it was adopted by Italian and eventually entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world. The word is mostly used as "goodbye" in English, but in modern Italian, modern Venetian and in other languages it may mean "hello", "goodbye", or both.

Trivia about ciao

  • "See ya," in Rome(4)
  • This farewell word first appeared in an English text in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms"
  • There are 3 vowels in this 4-letter Italian word for "so long"
  • "C4N" is this Italian greeting, "for now"