Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

magnifico

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English

Syllables: mag-nifi-co
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A grandee or nobleman of the Republic of Venice.

Obsolete

noun

A rector of a German university.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"For be ſure of this, / That the Magnifico is much beloued, / And hath in his effect, a voyce potentiall, / As double as the Dukes, he will diuorce you, / Or put vpon you what reſtraint, and greeuance, That law with all his might to inforce it on, / Weele giue him cable."
"I know—I've heard—but no wealth of the imagination can ever really quite reconstruct Tupworthy, the shoddy magnifico, in his immense porcine complacency, his monumental self-importance."

Etymology

From Italian magnifico. Doublet of magnific.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: magnifico

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

magnificos (plural) magnificoes (plural)

Questions

What does magnifico mean?: A grandee or nobleman of the Republic of Venice.
Where does magnifico come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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