tano
Spanish, noun
tano is spelled T-A-N-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 38,543rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tano is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “an Italian person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, taño is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of tañer”. With a tilde, tañó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of tañer”.
What does tano mean in English?
adjective
- 1
slangItalian
noun
- 1
masculineslangan Italian person
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tañer
- 2
first-person singular present indicative of tañir
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of tañer
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dicho de un persona, de origen italiano.
suffix: 1. Una de las formas que puede tomar el sufijo -ano.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tano
- tana feminine
- tanos masculine plural
- tanas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tano
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tano in Spanish?
tano appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).