magnifico
English
editEtymology
editFrom Italian magnifico. Doublet of magnific.
Noun
editmagnifico (plural magnificos or magnificoes)
- (obsolete) A grandee or nobleman of Venice.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 12:
- For be assured of this, / That the Magnifico is much beloved,
- (obsolete) A rector of a German university.
Translations
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magnifico”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin magnificus.
Adjective
editmagnifico (feminine magnifica, masculine plural magnifici, feminine plural magnifiche)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editmagnifico
Further reading
edit- magnifico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom magnificus (“noble, august”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /maɡˈni.fi.koː/, [mäŋˈnɪfɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maɲˈɲi.fi.ko/, [mäɲˈɲiːfiko]
Verb
editmagnificō (present infinitive magnificāre, perfect active magnificāvī, supine magnificātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Spanish: magnificar
- → French: magnifier
- → English: magnify
- → Italian: magnificare
References
edit- “magnifico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “magnifico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- magnifico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
editVerb
editmagnifico
Spanish
editVerb
editmagnifico
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ifiko
- Rhymes:Italian/ifiko/4 syllables
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian adjectives
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -av-
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms