Adjective: magno
Hyphenation: mà‧gno
| Singular m. | magno |
| Singular f. | magna |
| Plural m. | magni |
| Plural f. | magne |
Sample Sentences
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E seguì: «Grato e lontano digiuno, / tratto leggendo del magno volume / du’ non si muta mai bianco né bruno (And it continued: "Long and grateful hunger, drawn from the reading of the great volume where neither white nor black ever changes […]) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 49–51; 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:]
Adjectives inflected like magno
periurbano,
rigenerativo,
ionizzato,
surrogato,
monferrino,
coscienzioso,
palesato,
urinoso,
megadiverso,
autovalutativo,
sfatto,
sfitto,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
meschino,
angloamericano,
moltiplicativo,
sessantaseiesimo,
transgiordano,
sereno, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Uncertain if inherited or semi-borrowed from Latin magnus, from Proto-Italic *magnos, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂nós, derived from *méǵh₂s (“big; great”). See: Latin Adjectives '
magnus'.
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