paisanoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• paisan

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/, /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/

語源 1

From Neapolitan paisano. Doublet of peasant.

名詞

paisano (plural paisanos)

1. (US) An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.

等位語

• paisana (female)

語源 2

From Spanish paisano. Doublet of peasant.

名詞

paisano (plural paisanos)

1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
2. (US, Southwestern US) A roadrunner.
   • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 178, column 2:

     Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

アナグラム

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