sinó

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sino"

Catalan

Etymology

Univerbation of sí +‎ no.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [siˈno]

Conjunction

sinó

1. but (on the contrary)

   Els pares no es van barallar sinó que van anar al cinema. ― The old ones were not angry with each other, but they went to the cinema together.

Further reading

• “sinó” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “sinó”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sinó” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English snow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ˈnɔ/

Noun

sinó m (uncountable)

1. (US) snow

   Synonym: neve

   • Manuel Cardoso, Nesta triste ocasião, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 31:

     Muitas vezes me levanto / Em terrado no sino

     Many times I get up / Buried in the snow

   • 1978, Jerónimo Golçalves Trigueiro, Os Dois Aventureiros, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 105:

     O estado de Nova Yorque, / Tanta água que chovia; / No estado de Massachusetts / Só «sinó» é que caía.

     [In] the state of New York, / So much water rained; / In the state of Massachusetts / Only snow had been falling.

   • 2000, Onésimo Teotónio Almeida, (Sapa)teia americana: (contos), Edições Salamandra, page 174:

     […] , mas disse-me a Maria do Palinhas que o homem ouviu dizer no chápe que aquele sinó é dado cair nas montanhas, […]

     […] , but Maria from Palinhas told me that she heard a man say in the factory that that snow tends to fall in the mountains, […]