tafano in All languages combined

The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Hypernyms: animale, invertebrato, artropode, insetto, dittero, tabanide Derived forms: tafanare, tafanario, tafanare Related terms: tavano Translations ((senso figurato)): pest (inglese), gadfly (inglese) Translations ((zoologia),(entomologia)): horsefly (inglese), gadfly (inglese) [Show more ▼] [Hide more ▲]

Categories (other): Sostantivi in italiano

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Sostantivi in italiano",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tafanare"
    },
    {
      "word": "tafanario"
    },
    {
      "word": "tafanare"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "dal latino popolare tafanus, e da quello classico tabanus"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tafani",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "animale"
    },
    {
      "word": "invertebrato"
    },
    {
      "word": "artropode"
    },
    {
      "word": "insetto"
    },
    {
      "word": "dittero"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "famiglia"
      ],
      "word": "tabanide"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ta",
        "fà",
        "no"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italiano",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sostantivo",
  "proverbs": [
    {
      "word": "essere noioso come un tafano"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tavano"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "grosso insetto simile ad una mosca famiglia dei Tabanidi, particolarmente del Tabanus bovinus"
      ],
      "id": "it-tafano-it-noun-~72mgMrG",
      "topics": [
        "entomology",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Socrate si considerava il tafano degli ateniesi"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "persona fastidiosa e insopportabile"
      ],
      "id": "it-tafano-it-noun-gEK6w0uY",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/taˈfano//"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine",
    "singular"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(zoologia),(entomologia)",
      "word": "horsefly"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(zoologia),(entomologia)",
      "word": "gadfly"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(senso figurato)",
      "word": "pest"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(senso figurato)",
      "word": "gadfly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tafano"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "Sostantivi in italiano"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tafanare"
    },
    {
      "word": "tafanario"
    },
    {
      "word": "tafanare"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "dal latino popolare tafanus, e da quello classico tabanus"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tafani",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "animale"
    },
    {
      "word": "invertebrato"
    },
    {
      "word": "artropode"
    },
    {
      "word": "insetto"
    },
    {
      "word": "dittero"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "famiglia"
      ],
      "word": "tabanide"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ta",
        "fà",
        "no"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italiano",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sostantivo",
  "proverbs": [
    {
      "word": "essere noioso come un tafano"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tavano"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "grosso insetto simile ad una mosca famiglia dei Tabanidi, particolarmente del Tabanus bovinus"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entomology",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Socrate si considerava il tafano degli ateniesi"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "persona fastidiosa e insopportabile"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/taˈfano//"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine",
    "singular"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(zoologia),(entomologia)",
      "word": "horsefly"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(zoologia),(entomologia)",
      "word": "gadfly"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(senso figurato)",
      "word": "pest"
    },
    {
      "lang": "inglese",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "sense": "(senso figurato)",
      "word": "gadfly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tafano"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-20 from the itwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (e683717 and 51e6a0c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.

"tafano" meaning in All languages combined

Noun [Italiano]

Inflected forms