agno

See also: Agno

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /àɲo/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: à‧gno

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin agnus, from Proto-Italic *agʷnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós. Cognate with Albanian enjë, Czech jehně, Greek αμνός (amnós), Irish uan.

Noun

agno m (plural agni, feminine agna)

  1. (archaic, poetic) lamb
    Synonym: agnello

Further reading

  • agno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin inguen (“groin”) possibly crossed phonetically with anguis (“snake”), possibly through a Medieval Latin anguen.

Noun

agno m (plural agni)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) bubo that occurs especially in the groin

Latin

Noun

agnō

  1. dative/ablative singular of agnus
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