scanno
English
WOTD – 21 January 2016
Alternative forms
Etymology
From scan + -o, modelled on typo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskænəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskænoʊ/
- Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ænəʊ, (General American) -ænoʊ
- Hyphenation: scan‧no
Noun
scanno (plural scannos)
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- (informal) A typographical error caused by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape.
Translations
error in scanning
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See also
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskan.no/
- Rhymes: -anno
- Hyphenation: scàn‧no
Etymology 1
From Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Spanish escaño, Galician and Portuguese escano, Romanian scaun, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).
Noun
scanno m (plural scanni)
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
scanno
- first-person singular present indicative of scannare
Further reading
- scanno in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- scanno in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- scanno in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- scànno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- scanno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana