indiano

Esperanto

Etymology

From English Indian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [indiˈano]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧a‧no

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

indiano (accusative singular indianon, plural indianoj, accusative plural indianojn)

1. Indian (a member of any of the peoples indigenous to the Americas), Native American

   La "Vojo de Larmoj" disloĝigis 15,000 Ĉerokajn indianojn. ― The "Trail of Tears" dislocated 15,000 Cherokee Indians.

Galician

Torre dos Moreno, a casa de indianos (house of returned migrants to the Americas) in Ribadeo

Etymology

From India ‎ -ano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inˈdi̯anʊ]

Adjective

indiano (feminine indiana, masculine plural indianos, feminine plural indianas)

1. American (of the Americas)

   Synonym: americano

Noun

indiano m (plural indianos, feminine indiana, feminine plural indianas)

1. American (native of the Americas)

   Synonym: americano

2. local who has come back from the Americas, frequently with a sizeable capital

   Synonym: americano

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “indiano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “indiano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “indiano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Noun

indiano (plural indianos)

1. Indian (person from India)
2. Indian, native American (person who is a member of one of the indigenous nations of the Americas)

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin indiānus, from India.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdja.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: in‧dià‧no

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

indiano (feminine indiana, masculine plural indiani, feminine plural indiane)

1. Indian (of, from or relating to India)
2. Indian (relating to Native Americans)

Noun

indiano m (plural indiani, feminine indiana, diminutive indianèllo or indianìno)

1. Indian (native or inhabitant of India) (male or of unspecified gender)
2. Indian, Native American

   Synonyms: indiano d'America, nativo americano, indio, (rare) amerindio

Related terms

• elefante indiano
• India
• indianista
• Oceano Indiano

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• anodini, innodia, inondai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.diˈaː.noː/, [ɪn̪d̪iˈäːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.diˈa.no/, [in̪d̪iˈäːno]

Adjective

indiānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of indiānus

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin indiānus (“Indian”). By surface analysis, Índia ‎ -ano.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nu/ [ĩ.d͡ʒɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /ĩˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nu/ [ĩ.d͡ʒɪˈɐ̃.nu], (faster pronunciation) /ĩˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈɐ.no/ [ĩ.d͡ʒɪˈɐ.no], (faster pronunciation) /ĩˈd͡ʒjɐ.no/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈdjɐ.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈdjɐ.nu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈdja.nu/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃nu, -ɐnu
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧a‧no

Adjective

indiano (feminine indiana, masculine plural indianos, feminine plural indianas, not comparable)

1. Indian (of or relating to India)

Noun

indiano m (plural indianos, feminine indiana, feminine plural indianas)

1. Indian (someone from India)

Related terms

• Índia (“India”)
• Índias (“the Indies”)
• índio (“Indian, Native American, aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas”)

 

See also

• indígena (“indigenous person, especially an aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdjano/ [ĩn̪ˈd̪ja.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: in‧dia‧no

Adjective

indiano (feminine indiana, masculine plural indianos, feminine plural indianas)

1. Indian (American Indian)
2. having returned to Europe from the Americas very wealthy

Noun

indiano m (plural indianos, feminine indiana, feminine plural indianas)

1. Indian; American Indian
2. someone who returned to Europe from the Americas very wealthy

Descendants

• → Swedish: indian
  • → Finnish: intiaani
• → Tagalog: Indiyano

Further reading

• “indiano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014