muno

Borrowed from Latin mūnus (“service, gift”), from Proto-Italic *moinos (“service”), from Proto-Indo-European *moynós, derived from the root *mey- (“to change, swap”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.no/, [ˈmuːn̺o]
• Rhymes: -uno
• Stress: mùno
• Hyphenation: mu‧no

muno m (plural muni) (literary, obsolete)

1. gift

   Synonyms: dono, presente

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIV, lines 31–33, page 250:

     tre volte era cantato da ciascuno ¶ di quelli spirti con tal melodia, ¶ ch’ad ogne merto saria giusto muno

     Three several times was chanted by each one among those spirits, with such melody that for all merit it were just reward

• munerare
• munerazione
• munificente
• munificenza
• munifico