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Italian
Etymology 1
From popolo (“people”) + -ano (“-an, related to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.poˈla.no/
- Rhymes: -ano
- Hyphenation: po‧po‧là‧no
Adjective
popolano (feminine popolana, masculine plural popolani, feminine plural popolane)
- relational adjective of popolo (“people”): people's, of the people
- Synonym: popolare
Derived terms
Noun
popolano m (plural popolani, feminine popolana)
- man of the people
- (archaic) citizen
- (archaic) parishioner
- Synonym: parrocchiano
1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:[…] furono nella chiesa di San Paolo sepelliti, della quale per avventura erano popolani.- they were buried in Saint Paul’s church, of which, as it so happened, they were parishioners.
Noun
popolano m (plural popolani)
- (historical, numismatics, Milan) a 20-centesimos coin minted in 1863
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
popolano
- third-person plural present indicative of popolare