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guadagnare.

to earn (a salary, a wage, etc.)

10 characters4 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɡwa.daɲˈɲa.re/
  1. to earn (a salary, a wage, etc.)

    transitive
  2. to earn (trust, etc.)

    figuratively · transitive
  3. to gain, to get, to obtain

    transitive
  4. to win (a bet, a point, etc.)

    transitive
  5. to reach with difficulty

    figuratively · transitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *wadaniāre, of Germanic origin; from Frankish *waiþanōjan, *waiþanōn (“to hunt, graze”) (a calque of Latin petere). Compare French gagner, Catalan guanyar, Portuguese ganhar, Galician gañar, Galician ganar, Galician gadaña, Galician gadañar, cf. also Spanish ganar and Spanish guadañar.

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