scanno

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See also: scannò and Scanno

English

WOTD – 21 January 2016

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Etymology

scan +‎ -o, modelled on typo.

Pronunciation

Noun

scanno (plural scannos)

  1. A typographical error introduced by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape, as *tum for turn, or *Dosition for Position.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskan.no/
  • Rhymes: -anno
  • Hyphenation: scàn‧no

Etymology 1

From Latin scamnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up”). Cognate with Spanish escaño, Galician and Portuguese escano, Romanian scaun, Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá).

Noun

scanno m (plural scanni)

  1. seat, bench, stool, trestle
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

scanno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of scannare

Further reading

  • scanno in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • scanno in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • scanno in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • scànno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • scanno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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