seno

See also: seño, se no, sěno, and Seno

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech sěno, from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛno]
• Rhymes: -ɛno
• Hyphenation: se‧no

Noun

seno n

1. hay

   sušit seno ― to make hay

   hledat jehlu v kupce sena ― to look for a needle in a haystack

Declension

Declension of seno (hard neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	seno	sena
genitive	sena	sen
dative	senu	senům
accusative	seno	sena
vocative	seno	sena
locative	seně, senu	senech
instrumental	senem	seny

Derived terms

• seník
• senná rýma
• senný

 

Further reading

• seno in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• seno in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• seno in Internetová jazyková příručka

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sinus (“fold, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Romansch sain, Romanian sân, Spanish seno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.no/
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: sé‧no

Noun

seno m (plural seni)

1. breast
2. (by extension) bosom, heart, breast
   • 1787, Lorenzo Da Ponte (lyrics), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), “Don Giovanni”, act 1, scene 1:

     L'assassino m'ha ferito, / e dal seno palpitante / sento l’anima partir

     The assassin has wounded me! / And from my heaving breast / I see my soul escaping

3. (literary) womb
4. (geography) cove, inlet
5. (anatomy) sinus
6. (trigonometry) sine

Synonyms

• (breast): petto

Related terms

• coseno
• reggiseno
• seno etmoidale
• seno frontale
• senologia
• seno mascellare
• seno paranasale
• seno sfenoidale
• sinusale
• sinusite

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.noː/, [ˈs̠eːnoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.no/, [ˈsɛːno]

Adjective

sēnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēnus

Latvian

Adjective

seno

1. vocative singular masculine form of senais
2. accusative singular masculine form of senais
3. instrumental singular masculine form of senais
4. genitive plural masculine form of senais
5. vocative singular feminine form of senais
6. accusative singular feminine form of senais
7. instrumental singular feminine form of senais
8. genitive plural feminine form of senais

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲæːno]

Adjective

sẽno m

1. positive masculine singular genitive form of senas.

Lower Sorbian

seno

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěno. Cognate with Upper Sorbian syno, Polish siano, Czech seno, Russian се́но (séno), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɔ/

Noun

seno n (diminutive senko)

1. hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)

Declension

Declension of seno

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	seno	senje	sena
Genitive	sena	senowu	senow
Dative	senoju, senu	senoma	senam
Accusative	seno	senje	sena
Instrumental	senom	senoma	senami
Locative	senje	senoma	senach

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “seno”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “seno”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• सेनो (Devanagari script)
• সেনো (Bengali script)
• සෙනො (Sinhalese script)
• သေနော or သေၼေႃ (Burmese script)
• เสโน (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᨶᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ເສໂນ (Lao script)
• សេនោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄬𑄚𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

seno

1. nominative singular of sena (“hawk”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sinus (“sine”), from Latin sinus (“curve, breast”). Doublet of seio and sino.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈse.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈse.nu/

• Homophone: ceno
• Hyphenation: se‧no

Noun

seno m (plural senos)

1. (trigonometry) sine

Derived terms

• senoide
• cosseno

Related terms

• seio

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sijȇno

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêːno/
• Hyphenation: se‧no

Noun

sȇno n (Cyrillic spelling се̑но)

1. hay

Declension

Declension of seno

	singular	plural
nominative	seno	sena
genitive	sena	sena
dative	senu	senima
accusative	seno	sena
vocative	seno	sena
locative	senu	senima
instrumental	senom	senima

References

• “seno” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseno]

Noun

seno n (genitive singular sena, nominative plural sená, genitive plural sien, declension pattern of mesto)

1. hay

Declension

Declension of seno

	singular	plural
nominative	seno	sená
genitive	sena	sien
dative	senu	senám
accusative	seno	sená
locative	sene	senách
instrumental	senom	senami

Derived terms

• senný
• sienko, sience

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛnóː/

Noun

senọ̑ n

1. hay

Inflection

Neuter, hard
nominative	seno
genitive	sena
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	seno
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	senu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	senom

Further reading

• “seno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Sotho

Etymology

From nwa.

Noun

seno class 7/8 (plural dino)

1. beverage

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish seno, from Latin sinus, from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseno/ [ˈse.no]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: se‧no

Noun

seno m (plural senos)

1. (anatomy) breast
2. (anatomy) sinus
3. (mathematics) sine
4. (geography) sound (inlet)
5. (nautical) trough

Derived terms

• auxiliar de conversación
• conversación de sobremesa
• seno maxilar
• seno verso

 

Related terms

mathematics

• sen

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• no sé
• soné
• soñé

Trinitario

Noun

seno

1. woman

References

• Swintha Danielsen, Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages, page 4, 2011