Noun: vanni
Gender: m
Hyphenation: vàn‧ni
Sample Sentences
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Ravenna sta come stata è molt’anni:
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l’aguglia da Polenta la si cova,
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sì che Cervia ricuopre co’ suoi vanni. (Ravenna stands as it has stood for many years: the Eagle of Polenta is there brooding, so that she covers Cervia with her vans.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 40–42; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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Un suon, qual di lontana arpa, che scorre ¶ sopra i vanni de' Zeffiri soave; [...]
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A sound, like that of a distant harp, flowing ¶ gently above the wings of the Zephyrs; [1827, Ugo Foscolo, "Inno terzo - Pallade", Le grazie (Opere di Ugo Foscolo, Mursia (1967))]
Nouns inflected like vanni
sfottò,
pentafluoruro di arsenico,
strasserismo,
sbrinz,
scolapiatti,
sbatti,
server,
setter,
seitan,
iceberg,
savere,
satana,
safari,
salumi,
saloon,
salmoè,
scuter,
scerpa,
sciarm,
scotch, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from Latin vannus (“winnowing basket”) (for similarity between the movement of wings and that of shaking the basket). See: Latin Nouns '
vannus'.
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