fano

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word fano. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word fano, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say fano in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word fano you have here. The definition of the word fano will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition offano, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: Fano and Fanø

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

fano (plural fanos)

  1. A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.

References

  • A. N. Parshin, Igorʹ Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1999) Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties: “Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties.”
  • Alessio Corti (2007) Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds: “Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated.”

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

fano

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fanar

Latin

Noun

fānō

  1. dative/ablative singular of fānum

References

  • “fano”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fano in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “fano”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəñu, from Proto-Austronesian *pəñu.

Noun

fano

  1. (dialectal) sea turtle

References

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, whence also Old English fana, Old Norse fani.

Noun

fano m

  1. flag, fane

Related terms

Descendants

  • Middle High German: vane, van

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fano. Cognates include Maori whano and Samoan fano.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: fa‧no

Verb

fano (plural olo)

  1. (intransitive) to go
  2. (intransitive) to leave
  3. (intransitive) to perish
  4. (stative) to be lost
  5. (stative) to be interested
  6. (stative) to be preoccupied

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 112
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia