Feminine

mano

Sentences
An user
Don  Viciente,  appena   a terra respinse   la   mano
  del   vicecommissario   che   voleva   sorreggerlo .

Don Viciente, just on the ground, rejected the hand of the deputy commissioner who wanted to support him.

Meaning

  1. (feminine) hand
  2. (feminine) band, company (Boccaccio; v. manus)
  3. (feminine) round
  4. (feminine) coat of paint, layer of varnish

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
mà‧no
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈma.no/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin manus (whence also English manual, etc.), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry).

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