Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine) ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger)
- (colloquial, masculine, vulgar) anus; ringpiece
- (masculine) annulus
- (masculine) annulus
Concepts
finger-ring
Ring Nebula
anchor ring
looped pile
loop pile
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈnɛw/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Doublet of elo, which was inherited. Cognates include Catalan anell, French anneau, Italian anello, Spanish anillo. Sense 2 likely comes from the round form of the anus.
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