contadino
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editcontadino (plural contadinos or contadini)
- An Italian peasant.
- a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ——”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 68:
- Afar the Contadino’s song is heard, / Rude, but made sweet by distance;— […]
- 2007, Dean L. McLeod, Port Chicago, page 51:
- By 1910, about 31 Italian families were living in or near Nichols and working at the General Chemical Company. Many of them were contadinos sponsored by family.
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom contado (“countryside”) + -ino. Compare Sicilian cuntatinu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcontadino m (plural contadini, feminine contadina, diminutive contadinèllo or contadinétto or contadinòtto, augmentative contadinóne, pejorative contadinàccio)
- peasant, farmer, bond
- Synonyms: cafone, campagnolo
Adjective
editcontadino (feminine contadina, masculine plural contadini, feminine plural contadine)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Medieval Latin: contadīnus
Further reading
edit- contadino in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- contadino in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- contadino in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- contadìno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- contadino in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- contadino in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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