Io.

interj.  in Ezra Pound’s poem “Cantos,” “The cry of ‘Io’ is ‘Hail!’” (George Kearnes, Ezra Pound: The Cantos).


n.  a moon of Jupiter.

<In 1979, the Voyager spacecraft flew through the Jovian system, and one of the most exciting discoveries made by the Voyager spacecraft was the presence of active erupting volcanoes on Io.  —NASA.>

io.

n.  a North American yellow moth.

<The io moth / Has mam-moth eyes / That are not real— / They’re a disguise / To ward off birds / And other creatures, / Like garter snakes / And science teachers.  —Douglas Florian, “The Io Moth,” Insectiopedia.>

Io.

n.  a populated place in South Korea.


n.  a stream in Cameroon.


n.  a woman’s given name.

<They were warming again to enmity, perhaps because Io’s blue dress filled the corners of their eyes, and Io’s small, rounded and pleasing voice was saying something gay and unintelligible to a group of colliers just within earshot.  —Ellis Peters, Fallen Into the Pit.>

n.  in Classical mythology, another name for Dionysus.

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