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nono

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

English

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Noun

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nono (plural nonos)

  1. Alternative spelling of no-no

Anagrams

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Cimbrian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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nono m (plural non)

  1. (Luserna) grandfather
    Synonym: èno

Coordinate terms

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References

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)

  1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

Friulian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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nono m (plural nonos)

  1. grandfather

Synonyms

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Galician

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Galician numbers (edit)
90[a], [b]
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    Cardinal: nove
    Ordinal (reintegrationist): nono
    Ordinal (standard): noveno
    Ordinal abbreviation: 9º
    Multiplier: nónuplo
Galician Wikipedia article on 9

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin novēnus.

Adjective

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

  1. ninth
    Synonym: noveno

Noun

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nono m (plural nonos)

  1. ninth
    Synonym: noveno
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Contraction

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

  1. Contraction of non o (“not it/him”).
    • 2012, José Domínguez Fortes, O cambra‎[1]:
      Os romanos esixían ós galaicos que baixaran do monte. Pouco a pouco se foron convencendo que tiñan que facelo para cultivala terra, e evolucionar. Pero esta familia, moi agarimada ó lugar, nono fixo. Ficou alí.
      The Romans demanded that the Galicians get off the mountain. Little by little, they got convinced that they had to do it in order to cultivate the land and develop. But this family, being very attached to the place, didn't do it. They stayed there.

Further reading

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Garo

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Noun

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nono

  1. younger sister

Synonyms

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Hausa

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Etymology

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An areal word, perhaps from a Chadic root *nVnV- ("mother"), but also perhaps from Niger-Congo or Cushitic. Compare Sidamo unuuna (“breast”), Afar angu (“breast”), Saho angu (“breast”), Jiiddu eenge (“breast”), and Iraqw isaangw (“nipple, breast”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)

  1. milk
  2. a woman's breast

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin nonnus.

Noun

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nono m

  1. grandfather

Italian

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Italian numbers (edit)
90
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    Cardinal: nove
    Ordinal: nono
    Ordinal abbreviation: 9º
    Adverbial: nove volte
    Multiplier: nonuplo
    Collective: tutti e nove
    Fractional: nono
Italian Wikipedia article on 9

Etymology

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From Latin nōnus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. (ordinal number) ninth

Noun

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nono m (plural noni)

  1. (fractional number) ninth

Kari'na

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *nono; compare Apalaí nono, Trió nono, Panare ano, Akawaio non, Macushi non, Pemon nono, Ye'kwana nono.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nono (possessed yinonory)

  1. earth, soil
  2. land

References

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 325
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “nono”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 324; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[3], Paris, 1956, page 317

Ladino

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Etymology

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From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

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nono m

  1. grandfather
    Synonyms: papú, granpapa, avuelo

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Latin

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Numeral

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nōnō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus

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Malagasy

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Etymology

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

Noun

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nono

  1. breast

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mòcheno

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Etymology

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

Noun

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nono m

  1. grandfather
    Coordinate term: nu'na

References

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Nias

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Noun

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nono

  1. mutated form of ono (“child”)

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: no‧no

Etymology 1

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Portuguese numbers (edit)
90
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    Cardinal: nove
    Ordinal: nono, noveno
    Ordinal abbreviation: 9.º, 9º
    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

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

  1. (ordinal number) ninth
    Synonym: noveno

Noun

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nono m (plural nonos)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

  1. (South Brazil, familiar) grandfather

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin nonus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. (rare) ninth
    Synonym: noveno

Noun

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nono m (plural nonos)

  1. (fractional number, rare) ninth

Further reading

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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-nono (declinable)

  1. fat

Usage notes

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

Declension

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Inflected forms of -nono
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mnono
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

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Noun

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nono

  1. child

References

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  • Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Trió

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *nono. Compare Ye'kwana nono, Macushi non, Panare ano.

Noun

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nono

  1. earth, ground

Venetan

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Etymology

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From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

Noun

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nono m (plural noni)

  1. grandfather

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Descendants

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

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV nono
Brazilian standard nono
New Tribes nono

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *nono.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nono (possessed nonodü)

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

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[4], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes 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[5], 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[6], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 187, 189: “nono”
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