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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mūnus (“service, gift”), from Proto-Italic *moinos (“service”), from Proto-Indo-European *moynós, derived from the root *mey- (“to change, swap”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.no/
- Rhymes: -uno
- Hyphenation: mù‧no
Noun
muno m (plural muni) (literary, obsolete)
- gift
- Synonyms: dono, presente
c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:tre volte era cantato da ciascuno
di quelli spirti con tal melodia,
ch’ad ogne merto saria giusto muno- Three several times was chanted by each one
among those spirits, with such melody
that for all merit it were just reward
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Portuguese
Verb
muno
- first-person singular present indicative of munir
Spanish
Verb
muno
- first-person singular present indicative of munir