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A hypercorrection: in many dialects, a Standard Finnish diphthong ie becomes either iä or ia according to vowel harmony, making some people think that whenever one is tempted to say ia in the first syllable, it should be replaced with ie in formal speech. May also secondarily be a phono-semantic matching with pieni (“small”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpie̯no/, [ˈpie̞̯no̞]
• Rhymes: -ieno
• Syllabification^(key): pie‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): pie‧no

pieno (dialectal)

1. (possibly humorous) synonym of piano

• opein, peoni

From Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Catalan ple, French plein, Portuguese cheio, Romanian plin, Sardinian prenu, Sicilian chinu, Spanish lleno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛ.no/, /ˈpje.no/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɛno, -eno
• Hyphenation: piè‧no, pié‧no

pieno (feminine piena, masculine plural pieni, feminine plural piene, superlative pienissimo)

1. full

   Antonym: vuoto

2. full (with food)

• opine, peoni, pione