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πιάνω

Pronunciation: /ˈpça.no/

“πιάνω” is a Greek word. Its 14 meanings in English:

verb

  1. with one's hands: hold, catch, grab, take, handle, hold
  2. to adhere, stick, catch, anchor
  3. to rent
  4. to occupy, fill
  5. to catch, get, perceive, understand
  6. to take over, occur to oneself, happen to oneself, feel
  7. to acquire, fill with, catch
  8. to attempt, tackle, start, take up, act effectively, get results
  9. to reach
  10. to make an income, earn, profit, collect
  11. to bribe
  12. get help, assistance
  13. to fight, to be involved, quarrel, get into a fight
  14. to have muscular stiffness and pain

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek πιάνω (piánō), from earlier πιάζω (piázō, “to hold firmly”) by metaplasm, with reference to the past stem πιασ- (pias-) and by analogy with the unrelated verb φθάνω (ftháno, “to arrive”) and its past stem φθασ- (fthas-), from Ancient Greek πιέζω (piézō, “to press, squeeze, grasp”).

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