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English
Noun
testone (plural testones)
- An ancient subunit of a Portuguese cruzado.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From testa + -one.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈsto.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: te‧stó‧ne
Noun
testone m (plural testoni, feminine testona)
- Augmentative of testa
- blockhead, dunderhead
Further reading
- testone in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- testone in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- testone in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- testone in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- testóne in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- testóne in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana