nono

See also: Nono, no no, no-no, nöno, nönö, nɔnɔ, nɔ́nɔ, ñoño, №№, and NͦNͦ

English

Noun

nono (plural nonos)

1. Alternative spelling of no-no

Anagrams

• Noon, noon

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• nóono

Etymology

From Venetian nono, from Late Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”).

Noun

nono m (plural non)f

1. (Luserna) grandfather

   Synonym: èno

Coordinate terms

• nona

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/

• Audio

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Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)

1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

Friulian

Etymology

Compare Italian nonno, Venetian nono. Ultimately from Latin nonnus.

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• von

Related terms

• none

Galician

Alternative forms

• 9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Latin novēnus.

Adjective

nono m (feminine singular nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Related terms

• nove

Further reading

• “nono” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Garo

Noun

nono

1. younger sister

Synonyms

• nogipa (formal)
• no

Hausa

Etymology

An areal word, perhaps from a Chadic root *nVnV- ("mother"), but also perhaps from Niger-Congo or Cushitic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nóː.nòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [nóː.nòː]

Noun

nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)

1. milk
2. a woman's breast

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin nonnus.

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

Italian

Italian numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nove     Ordinal: nono     Ordinal abbreviation: 9º     Adverbial: nove volte     Multiplier: nonuplo     Collective: tutti e nove     Fractional: nono
Italian Wikipedia article on 9

Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.no/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: nò‧no

Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural noni, feminine plural none)

1. (ordinal number) ninth

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. (fractional number) ninth

Ladino

Etymology

From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

nono m (Latin spelling)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• avuelo
• papú

Coordinate terms

• (gender): nona

Latin

Numeral

nōnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus

References

• “nono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nunuh, from Proto-Austronesian *nunuh. Compare Kulon-Pazeh nunuh and Tsou nunʼu.

Noun

nono

1. breast

Synonyms

• tratra

Derived terms

• minono
• mampinono
• fampinonoana

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nono]

Noun

nono (possessed nonodü)

1. earth, soil
2. earth, world beneath the sky
3. dry land

Derived terms

• nono aküdü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “nono”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 187, 189

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian nonno (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

   Coordinate term: nu'na

References

• “nono” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Nias

Noun

nono

1. mutated form of ono (“child”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnõ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnõ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈno.nu/

• Hyphenation: no‧no

Etymology 1

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	90
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Cardinal: nove     Ordinal: nono, noveno     Ordinal abbreviation: 9.º     Multiplier (Brazil): nônuplo     Multiplier (Portugal): nónuplo     Fractional: nono, noveno     Group: noneto
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 9

From Old Galician-Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.

Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)

1. (ordinal number) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. (fractional number) ninth (one of nine parts of a whole)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Venetian nono (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).

Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nona, feminine plural nonas)

1. (South Brazil, familiar) grandfather

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnono/ [ˈno.no]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: no‧no

Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)

1. (rare) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. (fractional number, rare) ninth

Further reading

• “nono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Adjective

-nono (declinable)

1. fat

Usage notes

Only used of animals; for people, use -nene.

Declension

Inflected forms of -nono

Noun class	singular	plural
m-wa class(I/II)	mnono	wanono
m-mi class(III/IV)	mnono	minono
ji-ma class(V/VI)	nono	manono
ki-vi class(VII/VIII)	kinono	vinono
n class(IX/X)	nono	nono
u class(XI)	mnono	see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI)	panono
ku class(XVII)	kunono
mu class(XVIII)	munono

Tauya

Noun

nono

1. child

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Trió

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono. Compare Maquiritari nono, Macushi non, Panare ano.

Noun

nono

1. earth, ground

Venetian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. grandfather

Coordinate terms

• nona

Descendants

• → Cimbrian: nono, nóono
• → Portuguese: nono