magno

See also: Magno, magnó, and magnò

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)

  1. (archaic, literary) great, mighty
    Synonym: grande
    • c. 13161321, 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 []

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

  1. (transitive, slang, regional, central-southern Italy) first-person singular present indicative of magnare

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Latin

Adjective

magnō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of magnus

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magnus.

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)

  1. great

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magnus. Doublet of maño, a better-adapted borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɡno/ [ˈmaɣ̞.no]
  • Rhymes: -aɡno
  • Syllabification: mag‧no

Adjective

magno (feminine magna, masculine plural magnos, feminine plural magnas)

  1. great

Derived terms

Further reading

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