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Milano en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

Not certain; see Milano § History on Wikipedia.

Meanings

  1. A minor city in Milam County, Texas, United States.

wikipedia: Milano, Texas#History

Milano en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Italian Milano. Doublet of Milan.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Milan
    alt of Milan
    • The need to be competent is made extreme in a town like Milano, Italy, which can be compared, in management terms, to a huge company. 2014, Cristina Archetti, “The nature of the issues with which politicians deal”, in Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity: A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Findings):
    • Folko was not displeased to find that the ladies felt anxious to see beautiful Milano, and to leave Genoa on the morrow, as the autumnal gales were beginning to blow bleakly from the sea. 1876, [Friedrich] de la Motte Fouqué, anonymous translator, chapter X, in The Magic Ring: A Knightly Romance, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, book III, page 254:
    • After admiring Milano’s skyline, he was hungry and tired from his flights. He wheeled his suitcase across the piazza, focusing on his reason for being in Milano: to track Chiara, who he thought would lead him to her father. 2020, Jack Erickson, chapter 16, in The Lonely Assassin (Milan Thriller Series; 4), RedBrick Press, →ISBN:
  2. Alternative form of Milan: ▸ A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Milan and the region of Lombardy, Italy.
  3. Alternative form of Milan: ▸ A metropolitan city of Lombardy, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Milan.