tenno

• Tenno, Tennou

From Japanese 天皇 (Tennō てんのう, earlier ten'ou てんおう), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (tʰen-ɣwang) (compare Mandarin tiānhuáng 天皇), from Old Chinese 天皇 (*l̥ˁin-ɢʷˁaŋ "Heavenly Sovereign" → "Emperor"), from 天 ("Heaven") + 皇 ("sovereign").

tenno (plural tennos)

1. Japan’s head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. The emperor of Japan.

• mikado

• Chrysanthemum Throne

• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary lists only the spelling tenno, noting that it is often capitalized.
• Microsoft Encarta Online has no entry.

• nonet, tenon, tonne

From Japanese 天皇 (てんのう, Tennō, earlier てんおう, ten'ou ), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (tʰen-ɣwang), from Old Chinese 天皇 (*l̥ˁin-ɢʷˁaŋ, “Heavenly Sovereign” → “Emperor”), from 天 (“Heaven”) + 皇 (“sovereign”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.no/, [ˈt̪ɛn̺n̺o]
• Rhymes: -ɛnno
• Stress: tènno
• Hyphenation: ten‧no

tenno m (invariable)

1. The official title of the emperor of Japan.
2. The emperor of Japan.

• tenno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

tenno

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんのう