nono

See also: ñoño, nönö, no-no, and no no

English

Noun

nono (plural nonos)

1. Alternative spelling of no-no

Anagrams

• Noon, noon

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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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.no/

• Audio

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Noun

nono (feminine nounoune)

1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

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Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• von

Related terms

• none

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin novēnus.

Alternative forms

• 9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)

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.

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Garo

Noun

nono

1. younger sister

Synonyms

• nogipa (formal)
• no

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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

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin nonnus.

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

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Italian

Italian numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nove     Ordinal: nono     Adverbial: nove volte     Multiplier: nonuplo     Collective: tutti e nove     Fractional: nono
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Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.no/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: nò‧no

Adjective

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

1. (ordinal) ninth

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. (fractional) ninth

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Ladino

Etymology

From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

nono m (Latin spelling)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• avuelo
• papú

Coordinate terms

• (gender): nona

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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

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Malagasy

Etymology

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

Noun

nono

1. breast

Derived terms

• minono
• mampinono
• fampinonoana

Synonyms

• tratra

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Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nono]

Noun

nono

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

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• 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

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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.

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Nias

Noun

nono

1. mutated form of ono (“child”)

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Portuguese

Portuguese ordinal numbers

<  8º	9º	10º  >
Cardinal : nove     Ordinal : nono

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈnõ.nu/, [ˈnõ.nu]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈno.nu/, [ˈno.nu]

• Hyphenation: no‧no

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.

Alternative forms

• 9º (abbreviation)

Numeral

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

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnono/, [ˈno.no]

Adjective

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

1. (unusual) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Further reading

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

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Adjective

-nono (declinable)

1. fat

Usage notes

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

Inflection

Inflected forms of -nono

Noun class	singular	plural
M-wa class	mnono	wanono
M-mi class	mnono	minono
Ma class	nono	manono
Ki-vi class	kinono	vinono
N class	nono	nono
U class	mnono	nono
Pa class	panono	panono
Ku class	kunono	kunono
Mu class	munono	munono

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Tauya

Noun

nono

1. child

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

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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