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Ido
Etymology
From English penguin, French pingouin, German Pinguin, Italian pinguino, Russian пингви́н (pingvín), Spanish pingüino.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈɡwino/, /pinˈɡvino/
Noun
pinguino (plural pinguini)
- (ornithology) penguin
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pingouin, from Dutch pinguïn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈɡwi.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: pin‧guì‧no
Noun
pinguino m (plural pinguini)
- penguin
- A choc ice; an Eskimo pie
- A card game for two to twelve players played with a forty card deck formed by removing the 8's, 9,s and 10's from a standard pack of cards
- An aeroplane used for ground exercises
- An air conditioner
Derived terms
Further reading
- pinguino in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana