biondo

Compare Italian biondo.

biondo m

1. blond
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Nun o’ pioün veîsto el pioûn biel capo biondo.

     I haven’t seen a more beautiful blonde head.

Medieval Latin blondus, of Germanic origin: probably from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-. Compare French blond.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjon.do/

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• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: bión‧do

biondo (feminine bionda, masculine plural biondi, feminine plural bionde, superlative biondissimo)

1. blond (man, man's hair), blonde (woman, woman's hair), fair-haired

• biondina
• biondino
• biondo platino
• biondo rame

biondo m (plural biondi, feminine bionda)

1. blond, blond man, man with blond hair

• Bodoni, bidono, bidonò, bodino