guadagnare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to earn (a salary, a wage, etc.)
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to earn (trust, etc.)
  3. (transitive) to gain, to get, to obtain
  4. (transitive) to win (a bet, a point, etc.)
  5. (figuratively, transitive) to reach with difficulty

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
gua‧da‧gnà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡwa.daɲˈɲa.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *wadaniāre, of Germanic origin; from Frankish *waiþanōjan, *waiþanōn (“to hunt, graze”) (a calque of Latin petere). Compare French gagner, Catalan guanyar, Portuguese ganhar, cf. also Spanish ganar and Spanish guadañar.

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