popolano
Italian
Etymology 1
From popolo (“people”) + -ano (“-an, related to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.poˈla.no/
- Rhymes: -ano
- Hyphenation: po‧po‧là‧no
Adjective
popolano (feminine popolana, masculine plural popolani, feminine plural popolane)
Derived terms
Noun
popolano m (plural popolani, feminine popolana)
- man of the people
- (archaic) citizen
- (archaic) parishioner
- Synonym: parrocchiano
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- […] furono nella chiesa di San Paolo sepelliti, della quale per avventura erano popolani.
- […] they were buried in Saint Paul’s church, of which, as it so happened, they were parishioners.
Noun
popolano m (plural popolani)
- (historical, numismatics, Milan) a 20-centesimos coin minted in 1863
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.po.la.no/
- Rhymes: -ɔpolano
- Hyphenation: pò‧po‧la‧no
Verb
popolano
- third-person plural present indicative of popolare