muno

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūnus (“service, gift”), from Proto-Italic *moinos (“service”), from Proto-Indo-European *moynós, derived from the root *mey- (“to change, swap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.no/
• Rhymes: -uno
• Hyphenation: mù‧no

Noun

muno m (plural muni) (literary, obsolete)

1. gift

   Synonyms: dono, presente

   • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     tre volte era cantato da ciascuno
     di quelli spirti con tal melodia,
     ch’ad ogne merto saria giusto muno

     Three several times was chanted by each one
     among those spirits, with such melody
     that for all merit it were just reward

Related terms

• munerare
• munerazione
• munificente
• munificenza
• munifico

Portuguese

Verb

muno

1. first-person singular present indicative of munir

Spanish

Verb

muno

1. first-person singular present indicative of munir