paisano

• paisan

• (US) IPA^(key): /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/, /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/

From Neapolitan paisano. Doublet of peasant.

paisano (plural paisanos)

1. (US) An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.

• paisana (female)

From Spanish paisano. Doublet of peasant.

paisano (plural paisanos)

1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
2. (US, Southwestern US) A roadrunner.
   • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 178, column 2:

     Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

• anopias, anopsia

• sano

Borrowed from Spanish paisano, from Old French païsan, from Latin pagus (“countryside”).

• IPA^(key): /pajˈsano/ [pɐɪ̯ˈs̪a.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: pai‧sa‧no

paisano (Badlit spelling ᜉᜌ᜔ᜐᜈᜓ)

1. a fellow countryman; a compatriot

Ultimately from Old French païsan, itself from Latin pagus (“countryside”).

• IPA^(key): /pajˈsano/ [pa̠jˈs̺a.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: pai‧sa‧no

paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine paisana, feminine plural paisanas)

1. a fellow countryman
   • 1888, Novo Galiciano, number 17:

     encamiñado a censurar ó Goberno pola súa apatía e indifrencia ante unha custión tan grave como é a emigración, i a reporbar certos medios, indinos i asquerosos que, por algús tratantes de carne humana se veñen pondo en práutica pra fomentar a espatriación dos nosos paisanos a lonxes terras.

     in place to censure the Government because of its apathy and indifference to such a serious matter as it is emigration, and to reprove certain means, indignant and repulsive, that some human flesh traders are using to encourage the expatriation of our countrymen to distant lands.

2. a peasant (someone who lives in the countryside)

• paisaxe

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “paisano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “paisano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “paisano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “paisano”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “paisano”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

paisano m

1. a fellow countryman or compatriot

Borrowed from Spanish paisano.

• Rhymes: -ɐnu
• Hyphenation: pa‧i‧sa‧no

paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine paisana, feminine plural paisanas) (Rio Grande do Sul)

1. a fellow countryman
2. a peasant or countryman (someone who lives in the countryside)

   Synonyms: camponês, peão

3. a friend; a mate

   Synonyms: amigo, camarada, companheiro

• “paisano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “paisano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Old French païsan, itself from Latin pagus (“countryside”).

• IPA^(key): /paiˈsano/ [pai̯ˈsa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: pai‧sa‧no

paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine paisana, feminine plural paisanas)

1. a fellow countryman
2. a peasant (someone who lives in the countryside)
3. (Jewish) a fellow Jew

• “paisano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• paysano

Borrowed from Spanish paisano, from Old French païsan. Doublet of pesante.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paʔiˈsano/ [pɐ.ʔɪˈsaː.n̪o], (relaxed) /pajˈsano/ [paɪ̯ˈsaː.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: pa‧i‧sa‧no, pai‧sa‧no

paisano (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜁᜐᜈᜓ or ᜉᜌ᜔ᜐᜈᜓ)

1. fellow countryman

   Synonym: kababayan

2. civilian

   Synonym: sibilyan

3. (law enforcement) plainclothesman

   Synonyms: tiktik, detektib

• “paisano”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “paisano”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 436