affanno

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See also: affannò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /afˈfan.no/
  • Rhymes: -anno
  • Hyphenation: af‧fàn‧no

Etymology 1

Deverbal from affannare +‎ -o.

Noun

affanno m (plural affanni)

  1. breathlessness
    Synonyms: dispnea, soffocamento, trafelamento
  2. (informal, by extension) asthma
  3. (figurative, by extension) worry, trouble, anxiety
    Synonyms: ansia, apprensione, angoscia, ansietà, angustia, ambascia
    • 1829, Giacomo Leopardi, Le ricordanze [The memories]:
      soggiorno disumano, intra gli affanni, / o dell'arida vita unico fiore.
      inhumane sojourn, inside the anxieties / o in the arid life the only flower.
    • 2020 September 8, Federico Rampini, “Lusso, staff, bodyguard: Trump dilapida i fondi mentre Biden fa il pieno [Luxury, staff, bodyguard: Trump dilapidates his funds while Biden has enough]”, in la Repubblica‎:
      Quell'annuncio sui cento milioni di denaro personale arriva, guarda caso, nel giorno in cui un'inchiesta del New York Times, rovistando in tutti i documenti contabili che la campagna è tenuta a depositare, arriva a questa conclusione: il presidente è in affanno rispetto a Joe Biden, proprio quando la gara entra nel rettilineo finale.
      That announcement on the millions of personal dollars arrives, coincidentally, on the day in which a New York Times investigation, rummaging through all the accounting documents that the campaign is required to deposit, arrives to this conclusion: the president is in trouble with respect to Joe Biden, just when the race is entering into the final stretch.

Etymology 2

Verb

affanno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of affannare
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