capitanio

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.piˈta.njo/
• Rhymes: -anjo
• Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tà‧nio

Noun

capitanio m (plural capitani or capitanii) (Old Italian)

1. Alternative form of capitano
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Della galea sorrenata e derobata in piaia romana [About the galley that ran ashore and was ransacked in a beach of Rome]” (chapter 16), in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     entrao in terra romana moito de tenerissima etate, e fu omo de masnata e deventao virtuosissimo capitanio e fecese omo de granne fatto e de granne valore (Rome)

     he entered the Roman land at a very young age; he was part of a criminal gang, and became a really brave captain, turning into a man of great action and great valor