scanno

See also: scannò and Scanno

English

WOTD – 21 January 2016

Alternative forms

• scano

Etymology

scan +‎ -o, modelled on typo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskænəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskænoʊ/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ænəʊ, (General American) -ænoʊ
• Hyphenation: scan‧no

Noun

scanno (plural scannos)

1. A typographical error introduced by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape, as *tum for turn, or *Dosition for Position.

Coordinate terms

• clicko, speako, spello, thinko, typo, writo

Translations

error in scanning

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: сканлау хатаһы (skanlaw xatahı)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: scanningsfejl c
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: skannausvirhe
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: ljóslestrarvilla f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Ancons, Canons, ancons, canons, cañons

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskan.no/
• Rhymes: -anno
• Hyphenation: scàn‧no

Etymology 1

From Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Spanish escaño, Galician and Portuguese escano, Romanian scaun, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Noun

scanno m (plural scanni)

1. seat, bench, stool, trestle

Related terms

• sgabello

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

scanno

1. first-person singular present indicative of scannare

Further reading

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