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
- c. 1316–1321, 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
Latin
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɡno/ [ˈmaɣ̞.no]
- Rhymes: -aɡno
- Syllabification: mag‧no
Derived terms
Further reading
- “magno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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