magno
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɲ.ɲo/
- Rhymes: -aɲɲo
- Hyphenation: mà‧gno
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin magnus, from Proto-Italic *magnos, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂nós, derived from *méǵh₂s (“big; great”).
Adjective
magno (feminine magna, masculine plural magni, feminine plural magne)
- (archaic, literary) great, mighty
- Synonym: grande
- 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- E seguì: «Grato e lontano digiuno, / tratto leggendo del magno volume / du’ non si muta mai bianco né bruno
- And it continued: "Long and grateful hunger, drawn from the reading of the great volume where neither white nor black ever changes […]
Related terms
Further reading
- magno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
magno
- (transitive, slang, regional, central-southern Italy) first-person singular present indicative of magnare
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
magnō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of magnus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin magnus. Doublet of manho, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈma.ɡi.nu/, /ˈmaɡ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.no/, /ˈma.ɡi.no/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈma.ɡnu/ [ˈma.ɣnu]
- Hyphenation: mag‧no
Adjective
magno (feminine magna, masculine plural magnos, feminine plural magnas)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin magnus (“big, large”), from Proto-Italic *magnos, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂nós, from *méǵh₂s (“great”). Doublet of maño.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɡno/ [ˈmaɣ̞.no]
- Rhymes: -aɡno
- Syllabification: mag‧no
Adjective
magno (feminine magna, masculine plural magnos, feminine plural magnas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “magno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024