ciao
exclamation/tʃaʊ/
/tʃaʊ/
(from Italian, informal)- goodbyeWord Origin1920s: Italian, dialect alteration of schiavo ‘(I am your) slave’, from medieval Latin sclavus ‘slave’.
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