Meanings
nouncontadino (plural contadinos or contadini)
plural contadinos · plural contadini
- An Italian peasant.
Afar the Contadino’s song is heard, / Rude, but made sweet by distance;— […]
a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ——”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 681 more example
By 1910, about 31 Italian families were living in or near Nichols and working at the General Chemical Company. Many of them were contadinos sponsored by family.
2007, Dean L. McLeod, Port Chicago, page 51
Origin
- Italiancontadino
- Italiancontadino
- Englishcontadino
Borrowed from Italian contadino.
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contadino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contadino
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contadino,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contadino.
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