senno

See also: sennò

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sennus, of Germanic origin (whence also Old French sen, san (“mind, sense, direction”), Occitan sen, Catalan seny, Spanish sien), from Frankish *sinn (“sense, mental faculty, way, direction”), from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go”). Akin to Old High German sinn (“mind, sense, judgment”), Old English sinnan (“to mind, meditate on, consider”), Old English sīþ (“journey”). More at sense, send.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsen.no/
  • Rhymes: -enno
  • Hyphenation: sén‧no

Noun

senno m (plural senni)

  1. judgment, wisdom
  2. common sense

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