nonada
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From não (“no”) + nada (“nothing”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]nonada f (plural nonadas)
- a thing or event of little or no importance or value
- 2022 June 15, Maria Hermínia Tavares, “Brasil foi participante ausente da Cúpula das Américas”, in Folha de S.Paulo[1], São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:
- Faltaram (e muito) liderança e capacidade de costurar, em iniciativas concretas, os interesses compartilhados. Propostas vagas, objetivos imprecisos e muita indecisão concorreram para reduzir o evento a uma nonada.
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Further reading
[edit]- “nonada”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “nonada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From no (“no”) + nada (“nothing”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonada f (plural nonadas)
- a thing or event of little or no importance or value
- 1787, R. P. Fr. Jacinto Montargon, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho (translator), Diccionario apostolico, &c., volume 2, Don Miguél Escribano, page 237:
- Durante la vida estas cosas son nonadas, y vienen á ser monstruos en la hora de la muerte: […]
- These are meaningless things during life, and become monsters when it’s time to die: […]
- Las ganancias eran una nonada a comparación del dinero invertido.
- The profit was nothing compared to the original investment.
- Synonym: nada
- 1787, R. P. Fr. Jacinto Montargon, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho (translator), Diccionario apostolico, &c., volume 2, Don Miguél Escribano, page 237:
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nonada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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