villano

See also: Villano

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin vīllānus, from Latin vīlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vilˈla.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: vil‧là‧no

Adjective

villano (feminine villana, masculine plural villani, feminine plural villane)

1. rude, bad-mannered

Derived terms

• villanamente

 

Noun

villano m (plural villani, feminine villana, diminutive villanèllo, augmentative villanóne, pejorative villanàccio)

1. a rude or bad-mannered person; lout or boor
2. (literary, archaic) peasant

Related terms

• villa

 

Further reading

• villano in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• villano in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• villano in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• villano in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• villàno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• villano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• valloni, villona

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːlˈlaː.noː/, [u̯iːlˈlʲäːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vilˈla.no/, [vilˈläːno]

Noun

vīllānō

1. dative/ablative singular of vīllānus

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin vīllānus, from Latin vīlla. Cognate with English villain and villein.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /biˈʝano/ [biˈʝa.no]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝano/ [biˈʝa.no]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /biˈʎano/ [biˈʎa.no]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃano/ [biˈʃa.no]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒano/ [biˈʒa.no]

• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: vi‧lla‧no

Adjective

villano (feminine villana, masculine plural villanos, feminine plural villanas)

1. peasant
2. villainous, rude, bad-mannered

Derived terms

• villanía

 

Noun

villano m (plural villanos, feminine villana, feminine plural villanas)

1. villain, bad guy

Derived terms

• archivillano

 

Related terms

• villa

 

Further reading

• “villano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014