Milano

See also: milano and Milánó

English

Etymology 1

Not certain; see Milano § History on Wikipedia.

Proper noun

Milano

1. A minor city in Milam County, Texas, United States.

Etymology 2

From Italian Milano. Doublet of Milan.

Proper noun

Milano

1. Synonym of Milan (“a city in northern Italy; the capital of Lombardy”).
   • 1876, [Friedrich] de la Motte Fouqué, anonymous translator, chapter X, in The Magic Ring: A Knightly Romance, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, book III, page 254:

     Folko was not displeased to find that the ladies felt anxious to see beautiful Milano, and to leave Genoa on the morrow, as the autumnal gales were beginning to blow bleakly from the sea.

   • 2014, Cristina Archetti, “The nature of the issues with which politicians deal”, in Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity: A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Findings):

     The need to be competent is made extreme in a town like Milano, Italy, which can be compared, in management terms, to a huge company.

   • 2020, Jack Erickson, chapter 16, in The Lonely Assassin (Milan Thriller Series; 4), RedBrick Press, →ISBN:

     After admiring Milano’s skyline, he was hungry and tired from his flights. He wheeled his suitcase across the piazza, focusing on his reason for being in Milano: to track Chiara, who he thought would lead him to her father.

Danish

Proper noun

Milano

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈlano/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: Mi‧la‧no

Proper noun

Milano (accusative Milanon)

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Estonian

Proper noun

Milano

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Mediōlānum, possibly of Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Milano f

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)
3. the letter M in the Italian spelling alphabet

Derived terms

• milanese
• milanista

Anagrams

• Manlio, lamino, laminò, limano, limona

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Milano

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Milano

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milâːno/
• Hyphenation: Mi‧la‧no

Proper noun

Milȃno m (Cyrillic spelling Мила̑но)

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Declension

Declension of Milano

	singular
nominative	Milano
genitive	Milana
dative	Milanu
accusative	Milano
vocative	Milano
locative	Milanu
instrumental	Milanom

Swedish

Proper noun

Milano n (genitive Milanos)

1. Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian Milano, from Latin Mediōlānum, possibly from Gaulish. Compare Ottoman Turkish میلان (Milan).

Proper noun

Milano

1. Milan (a city in northern Italy; the capital of Lombardy)
2. Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy), the province surrounding the city.