meno

See also: Meno, menó, menò, menō, menő, meno-, méno-, and měno

Breton

Noun

meno

1. idea

Catalan

Verb

meno

1. first-person singular present indicative form of menar

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meno. Equivalent to mennä +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeno/, [ˈme̞no̞]
• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification^(key): me‧no

Noun

meno

1. going, course, ride (act of moving oneself)

   Synonyms: kulku, meneminen

   se on menoa nyt

   here we go

   (literally, “it is going now”)

2. (colloquial) going, atmosphere, state of things
   • 2023, “Paha meno Pengerkadulla”, in Valeria, performed by Arppa:

     Nyt on tosi paha meno Pengerkadulla, / Joku ajaa poliiseja pakoon autolla

     Things are bad on Pengerkatu right now, / Someone running from the police with a car

   Konsertissa oli hyvä meno.

   The atmosphere at the concert was great.

3. (in the plural) ceremony, ritual

   Synonyms: seremonia, rituaali

4. errand, plan (to go somewhere outside one's home)

   Synonym: suunnitelma (in the plural)

   Minulla on tänään menoa.

   I have got somewhere to be today.

5. expense, expenditure

   Synonym: kulu

Declension

Inflection of meno (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		meno	menot
genitive		menon	menojen
partitive		menoa	menoja
illative		menoon	menoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		meno	menot
accusative	nom.	meno	menot
	gen.	menon
genitive		menon	menojen
partitive		menoa	menoja
inessive		menossa	menoissa
elative		menosta	menoista
illative		menoon	menoihin
adessive		menolla	menoilla
ablative		menolta	menoilta
allative		menolle	menoille
essive		menona	menoina
translative		menoksi	menoiksi
instructive		—	menoin
abessive		menotta	menoitta
comitative		—	menoineen

Possessive forms of meno (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	menoni	menomme
2nd person	menosi	menonne
3rd person	menonsa

Derived terms

• soidinmenot
• uhrimenot

Anagrams

• emon

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.no/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: mé‧no

Etymology 1

From Latin minus.

Adverb

meno

1. less
2. not; non-

   Synonym: no

   Se l'abbia scritto o meno rimarrà sempre un segreto.

   Whether he wrote it or not will always remain a secret.

   legalità o meno ― legality or non-legality

3. (mathematics) minus
4. minus (an amount of time)

   sono le cinque meno un quarto

   it is quarter to five

   (literally, “five minus a quarter”)

5. (music) less

Derived terms

• a meno che
• in men che non si dica
• meno male
• più o meno
• nemmeno

Determiner

meno

1. less

   Ho meno tè di te. ― I have less tea than you.

   Ho meno tè che caffé. ― I have less tea than coffee.

   Ho dovuto aspettare meno di dieci minuti. ― I had to wait less than ten minutes.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

meno

1. first-person singular present indicative of menare

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• nome

Karelian

Noun

meno

1. course

Lithuanian

Noun

meno m

1. genitive singular of mẽnas

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

meno

1. vocative singular of mena

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmeno]

Noun

meno n (genitive singular mena, nominative plural mená, genitive plural mien, declension pattern of mesto)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun (broad sense)

   podstatné meno ― noun (narrow sense), substantive

   prídavné meno ― adjective

Declension

Declension of meno

	singular	plural
nominative	meno	mená
genitive	mena	mien
dative	menu	menám
accusative	meno	mená
locative	mene	menách
instrumental	menom	menami

Derived terms

• v mene
• menný
• menne
• meniny

Further reading

• meno in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Verb

meno

1. first-person singular present indicative of menar

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

meno

1. plural of jino

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meno.

Pronunciation

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmeno/, [ˈmeno]
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: me‧no

Noun

meno

1. going, moving
2. expense
3. business, matter, errand
4. custom, tradition

Inflection

Declension of meno (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	meno	menod
genitive	meno	menoje, menojõ, menoi
partitive	mennoa	menoitõ, menoi
illative	menno, mennosõ	menoje, menojõ, menoisõ
inessive	menoz	menoiz
elative	menossõ	menoissõ
allative	menolõ	menoilõ
adessive	menollõ	menoillõ
ablative	menoltõ	menoiltõ
translative	menossi	menoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “meno”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn