contadino

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English

Etymology

From Italian contadino.

Noun

contadino (plural contadinos or contadini)

  1. 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: for John and Henry L 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

Etymology

From contado (“countryside”) +‎ -ino. Compare Sicilian cuntatinu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.taˈdi.no/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: con‧ta‧dì‧no

Noun

contadino m (plural contadini, feminine contadina, diminutive contadinèllo or contadinétto or contadinòtto, augmentative contadinóne, pejorative contadinàccio)

  1. peasant, farmer, bond
    Synonyms: cafone, campagnolo

Adjective

contadino (feminine contadina, masculine plural contadini, feminine plural contadine)

  1. rural, country

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Medieval Latin: contadīnus

Further reading

  • 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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