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, “Don Giovanni”, Lorenzo Da Ponte (lyrics), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), 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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.no/, [ˈsɛːno]

Adjective

sēnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēnus

Latvian

Adjective

seno

1. inflection of senais:
   1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
   2. genitive plural masculine/feminine

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲæːno]

Adjective

sẽno m

1. genitive masculine singular 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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

Alternative forms

• sijȇno (Ijekavian)

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

Further reading

• “seno” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

seno (Cyrillic spelling сено)

1. vocative singular of sena

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, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śáina, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“pale, faint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛnóː/
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: se‧no

Noun

senọ̑ n

1. hay of the first mowing in a year

   Synonyms: košenina, mrva, arnica, jarnica, košeničica, vrnica

2. (by extension, colloquial) any hay

Declension

First neuter declension (hard o-stem), long mixed accent (singularia tantum)
nom. sing.	senọ̑
gen. sing.	senȃ
	singular
nominative imenovȃlnik	senọ̑
genitive rodȋlnik	senȃ
dative dajȃlnik	sẹ̑nu, sẹ̑ni
accusative tožȋlnik	senọ̑
locative mẹ̑stnik	sẹ̑nu, sẹ̑ni
instrumental orọ̑dnik	sẹ̑nom
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	senọ̑

Derived terms

• grško seno
• iskati iglo v kopici sena
• iskati iglo v senu
• iskati kot iglo v senu
• iskati šivanko v senu
• jašek za seno
• najti iglo v kopici sena
• najti iglo v senu
• puhalnik za seno
• seno – slama
• Senovo
• Senožeče
• senožẹ̑t
• seník
• senẹ̑n

 

See also

• trava (“grass”)
• otava
• otavič
• slama

Further reading

• “seno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “seno”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

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]
• 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