different between tenno vs mikado

English

Alternative forms

• Tenno, Tennou

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tenn?).

Noun

tenno (plural tennos)

1. The emperor of Japan as her head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.

Synonyms

• mikado

Related terms

• Chrysanthemum Throne

References

• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary lists only the spelling tenno, noting that it is often capitalized.
• Microsoft Encarta Online has no entry.

Anagrams

• nonet, tenon, tonne

Italian

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tenn?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.no/
• Rhymes: -?nno
• Hyphenation: tèn?no

Noun

tenno m (invariable)

1. The official title of the emperor of Japan.
2. The emperor of Japan.

References

• tenno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (mikado), from ? (mi, “honorable”) + ? (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??k??d??/
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

mikado (plural mikados)

1. (historical) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

   Synonym: tenno

3. a game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack

   Synonym: pick-up sticks

4. a fabric having a stiff twill weave

Quotations

• 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

  Our great Mikado, virtuous man,

  When he to rule our land began,

  Resolved to try a plan whereby

  Young men might best be steadied.

Related terms

• Chrysanthemum Throne

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?mi.ka??do?/
• Hyphenation: mi?ka?do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. mikado, pick-up sticks (game of skill)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?mi?ka?.do?/
• Hyphenation: mi?ka?do

Noun

mikado m (plural mikado's, diminutive mikadootje n)

1. (historical) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan

Esperanto

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (mikado).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?kado/
• Hyphenation: mi?ka?do
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

mikado (accusative singular mikadon, plural mikadoj, accusative plural mikadojn)

1. mikado

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (mikado), from ? (mi, “honorable”) + ? (kado, “gate, portal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ka.do/

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. (historical) mikado, a former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period
2. (literary) any emperor of Japan
3. mikado (game of skill)

Further reading

• “mikado” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Romanization

mikado

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?kado/, [mi?ka.ð?o]

Noun

mikado m (plural mikados)

1. mikado