Sinatra

English

Etymology

From the Italian surname (Calabria & Sicily), from the title of magistrates in Italian states, ultimately from a nickname for members of the Roman senate, Latin senatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑːtɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Sinatra (plural Sinatras)

1. A surname.
   • 2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum: The memorial at Ground Zero is filled with objects that shock the tears out of you”, in The Daily Telegraph‎, archived from the original on 1 July 2014, page 24:

     There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie.

Derived terms

• Sinatraesque
• Sinatran
• Sinatratic
• Swoonatra

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sinatra is the 23300^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1093 individuals. Sinatra is most common among White (92.68%) individuals.

References

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sinatra”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Sartain, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, artisan, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina

Italian

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Sinatra

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈna.tra/
• Rhymes: -atra
• Hyphenation: Si‧nà‧tra

Proper noun

Sinatra m or f by sense

1. a surname

Anagrams

• nastrai, ranista, rintasa, sanarti, sartina, strania