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- Italian · derived fromzanni“a kind of masked clown character”
- Middle French · derived fromzani
- English todayzany
From Middle French zani, zanni, from Italian zanni (“a kind of masked clown character”), from Zanni, a Venetian form of Giovanni. Doublet of Zanni, John, and Giovanni.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.