"magro" meaning in Italian

See magro in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈma.ɡro/ Forms: magra [feminine], magri [masculine, plural], magre [feminine, plural], magrissimo [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɡro Etymology: From Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Etymology templates: {{ety|it|:inh|la:macer<alt:macrum>}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*makros", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "macer", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Italian", "term" : "magro", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "it" }" data-lang="it" data-title="magro">, {{inh|it|la|macer|macrum}} Latin macrum, {{inh|it|ine-pro|*mh₂ḱrós}} Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Head templates: {{it-adj|sup=magrissimo}} magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magri, feminine plural magre, superlative magrissimo)
  1. thin, lean, slim, spare Synonyms: asciutto, sottile
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  2. low-fat, lean (of food)
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  3. meagre, poor, scarce, puny Synonyms: povero, scarso
    Sense id: en-magro-it-adj-hrzucocE Categories (other): Italian terms with collocations, Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/ Disambiguation of Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/: 0 25 50 13 13

Noun

IPA: /ˈma.ɡro/ Forms: magri [plural]
Rhymes: -aɡro Etymology: From Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Etymology templates: {{ety|it|:inh|la:macer<alt:macrum>}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*makros", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "macer", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Italian", "term" : "magro", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "it" }" data-lang="it" data-title="magro">, {{inh|it|la|macer|macrum}} Latin macrum, {{inh|it|ine-pro|*mh₂ḱrós}} Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Head templates: {{it-noun|m}} magro m (plural magri)
  1. lean part Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-magro-it-noun-MRBhVxbx
  2. lean, lean meat (of meat) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-magro-it-noun-KaOLL1Ri
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dimagrire, magra, magramente, magrezza, magrolino, smagrire

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.