acanino
Italian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kaˈni.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: a‧ca‧nì‧no
Adjective
acanino (feminine acanina, masculine plural acanini, feminine plural acanine)
- (literary) dear, sweet
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava – Novella decima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- Non so chi mi s’avesse a questo potuto conducere altri che tu; tu m’hai miso lo foco all’arma, toscano acanino.
- I don't know who else other than you could have pushed me to this; you brought fire in my soul, dear Tuscan.
Further reading
- acanino in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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