Etymology

piano nobile

Today it means: The floor of a building where the principal bedrooms and main reception rooms are found, very often on the first or second floor in older buildings. Full definition →

Italian piano nobile ← ['it ',
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  1. ['it · borrowed from',
  2. Italian · borrowed frompiano nobile
  3. English todaypiano nobile

Borrowed from Italian piano nobile (“noble floor”).

Words from the same roots

['it', all →

alla marciacon motocon sordinoin altissimosenza sordinotre corde

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.