Milaner
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English Milener, Miloner (“native of Milan”),[1] from Milan[2] + -er(e) (suffix denoting an inhabitant or resident).[3] The English word is analysable as Milan + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪnə/
- (General American) enPR: mĭ'lə-nər, IPA(key): /ˈmɪlənəɹ/
- Homophone: milliner
- Hyphenation: Mi‧lan‧er
Noun
Milaner (plural Milaners)
- (obsolete) Synonym of Milanese (“an inhabitant or native of Milan”)
- 1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], verso:
- Troth ſiſter I heard you vvere married to a very rich chuffe, and I vvas ſorry for it, that I had no better clothes, and that made mee ſend: for you knovv vve Millaners loue to ſtrut vpon Spaniſh leather.
- 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 295:
- "I had something to say to thee, Smith—Canst thou take up a fallen link in my Milan hauberk?" / "As well, please your Highness, as my mother could take up a stitch in the nets she wove—The Milaner shall not know my work from his own."
Derived terms
References
- “Milener, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “Milan, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “-ē̆r(e, suf.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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