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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French couard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈdar.do/
- Rhymes: -ardo
- Hyphenation: co‧dàr‧do
Adjective
codardo (feminine codarda, masculine plural codardi, feminine plural codarde)
- cowardly, namby-pamby, spineless
- (heraldry) coward (of a lion)
Derived terms
Noun
codardo m (plural codardi, feminine codarda)
- coward, nithing, dastard, wretch, sneak
Further reading
- codardo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- codardo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- codardo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- codardo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- codardo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- codardo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana