paisano

• paisan

From Neapolitan and Spanish paisano, Italian paesano, French paysan

• (US) IPA^(key): /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/, /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/

paisano (plural paisanos)

1. (Alternate spelling of paesano, from Neapolitan language "paisano," often shortened to "paisan" or "paesan") among Italian Americans and Americans of Italian descent, a fellow Italian or Italian-American; a fellow ethnic Italian.
2. native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
3. (US, Southwestern US) roadrunner
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

• anopias, anopsia

From Spanish paisano, from Old French païsan, from Latin pagus (“countryside”)/

• Hyphenation: pa‧i‧sa‧no

paisano

1. a fellow countryman; a compatriot

paisano

1. a fellow countryman or compatriot

From Old French païsan, itself from Latin pagus (“countryside”)

• IPA^(key): /paiˈsano/, [pai̯ˈsano]

paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine paisana, feminine plural paisanas)

1. a fellow countryman
2. a peasant (someone who lives in the countryside)
3. (Jewish) a fellow Jew

• paisanaje