contadino

English

Etymology

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Italian contadinobor.

English contadino

Borrowed from Italian contadino.

Noun

contadino (plural contadinos or contadini)

1. An Italian peasant.
   • a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to —⁠—”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 68:

     Afar the Contadino’s song is heard, / Rude, but made sweet by distance;— […]

   • 2007, Dean L. McLeod, Port Chicago, page 51:

     By 1910, about 31 Italian families were living in or near Nichols and working at the General Chemical Company. Many of them were contadinos sponsored by family.

Italian

Etymology

From contado (“countryside”) +‎ -ino (“diminutive suffix”). Compare Sicilian cuntatinu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.taˈdi.no/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: con‧ta‧dì‧no

Noun

contadino m (plural contadini, feminine contadina, diminutive contadinèllo or contadinétto or contadinòtto, augmentative contadinóne, pejorative contadinàccio)

1. peasant, farmer, bond

   Synonyms: cafone, campagnolo

Adjective

contadino (feminine contadina, masculine plural contadini, feminine plural contadine)

1. rural, country

Derived terms

• contadinesco

Related terms

• contadinella
• contado

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: contadīnus

Further reading

• contadino in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• contadino in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• contadino in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• contadìno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• contadino in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• contadino in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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