assassino

See also: assassinò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.səˈsi.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.səˈsi.no]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.saˈsi.no]

Verb

assassino

1. first-person singular present indicative of assassinar

Italian

Alternative forms

• assessino (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.sasˈsi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: as‧sas‧sì‧no

Etymology 1

From Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users”) or أَسَاسِيُّون (ʔasāsiyyūn). Compare Piedmontese assassin, sassin.

Noun

assassino m (plural assassini, feminine assassina)

1. assassin, hitman

   Synonym: sicario

2. (by extension) murderer

   Synonyms: omicida, (archaic) uccisore

3. (by extension) villain, miscreant, scoundrel (one who damages people and/or property out of wickedness or ineptitude)

   Synonyms: criminale, delinquente, scellerato

Related terms

• assassinio
• assassinare

Adjective

assassino (feminine assassina, masculine plural assassini, feminine plural assassine)

1. murderous
2. (by extension) demanding yet scarcely profitable (of a task)
3. (by extension) seductive, provocative

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

assassino

1. first-person singular present indicative of assassinare

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• assonassi

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.saˈsĩ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.saˈsĩ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.saˈsi.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɐˈsi.nu/

• Hyphenation: as‧sas‧si‧no

Etymology 1

From Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users”) or أَسَاسِيُّون (ʔasāsiyyūn, “fundementalist”).

Adjective

assassino (feminine assassina, masculine plural assassinos, feminine plural assassinas)

1. murderous

Noun

assassino m (plural assassinos)

1. killer, murderer, assassin

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

assassino

1. first-person singular present indicative of assassinar

Further reading

• “assassino” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “assassino” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “assassino” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “assassino” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “assassino” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “assassino” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.