fattone
Italian
Etymology 1
From fatto, from Latin factus (“done”, “made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”), from Proto-Italic *fakiō, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”). By surface analysis, fatto (“stoned”, “high”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fatˈto.ne/
- Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: fat‧tó‧ne
Noun
fattone m (plural fattoni, feminine fattona)
- (slang) pothead (person who smokes marijuana)
Etymology 2
From fatto (masculine singular past participle of fare) + -ne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfat.to.ne/
- Rhymes: -attone
- Hyphenation: fàt‧to‧ne
Participle
fattone (feminine fattane, masculine plural fattine, feminine plural fattene)
- compound of fatto, the masculine singular past participle of fare, with ne
- 2025 March 28, “Ancona, Luigi Piovano e la Form sul palco dello Sperimentale [Ancona, Luigi Piovano and the FORM [Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche (“Regional Orchestra of The Marche Foundation”)] on the stage of the Sperimentale]”, in CentroPagina.it[1], archived from the original on 25 January 2026, retrieved 25 January 2026:
- Da allora, è uno dei brani più celebri della storia della musica, amplificato anche dall'uso fattone all'interno di film molto noti, tra i più recenti, Il discorso del re.
- Since then, it is [has become] one of the most famous track in the history of music, amplified also by the use made of it in very notorious films, among the most recent, The King's Speech.