dono

Etymology

From donation +‎ -o.

Noun

dono (plural donos)

1. (slang) A donation.

Anagrams

• Ondo, doon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdo.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdo.no]

Verb

dono

1. first-person singular present indicative of donar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdono]
• Hyphenation: do‧no

Noun

dono

1. vocative singular of dona

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dono, from Late Latin domnus, from Latin dominus (“lord”). Cognates include Portuguese dono, Spanish dueño, and Italian donno.

Noun

dono m (plural donos, feminine dona, feminine plural donas)

1. owner

   Synonyms: amo, propietario

Further reading

• “dono”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.no/
• Rhymes: -ono
• Hyphenation: dó‧no

Etymology 1

From Latin dōnum (“gift”).

Etymology 2

Anagrams

• nodo, ondo, ondò

Romanization

dono

1. Rōmaji transcription of どの

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dōnāō. Equivalent to dōnum (“gift”) +‎ -ō (denominative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.noː/, [ˈd̪oːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.no/, [ˈd̪ɔːno]

Verb

dōnō (present infinitive dōnāre, perfect active dōnāvī, supine dōnātum); first conjugation

1. to give (with dative of the indirect object and accusative of the object (thing presented))

   Synonyms: condōnō, largior, praebeō, offerō, prōferō, sufferō, afferō, polliceor, obiciō, moveō

   • Vergilius :

     Juvenem praestanti munere donat

     He presents the youth with a noble gift

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.11:

     Caesar praedam militibus donat

     Caesar gives the booty to the soldiers

2. (often in passive constructions) to present (someone with something) [with ablative]
   • 46 BC, Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili, volume 3.53:

     Quem Caesar, ut erat de se meritus et de re publica, donatum milibus CC collaudatumque ab octavis ordinibus ad primipilum se traducere pronuntiavit [...]

     Whom (Scaeva, a Roman centurion of Caesar) Caesar, as he had been up to his expectations and the republique's as well, declared himself to promote from the eighth order to the rank of primipilus, besides having been presented with 200 000 sesterces and acclaimed by soldiers all [...]

   1. (with cīvitāte (ablatif singular of cīvitās)) to naturalize

      donare aliquem civitate ― to naturalize someone (especially: to bestow the Roman citizenship on someone)

3. to bestow, grant

   Synonyms: largior, moveō

4. to forgive, pardon

   Synonyms: ignōscō, parcō, remittō, āmittō, dīmittō, perdōnō, condōnō

Noun

dōnō

1. dative/ablative singular of dōnum

References

• “dono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dono in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a man a citizen: civitate donare aliquem (Balb. 3. 7)
    

Etymology

From do +‎ no; compare German danach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈno/, [doˈnoː], /ˈdoːno/

Adverb

dono

1. thereafter, after, later

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin domnus, from Latin dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.no/

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ono

Noun

dono m (plural donos)

1. owner

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "dono"

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dono, from Late Latin domnus, from Latin dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“house”), from *dem- (“to build”). Compare Galician dono and Spanish dueño. Doublet of dominó.

Pronunciation

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [ˈdwɐ.nu]
• Rhymes: -onu
• Hyphenation: do‧no

Noun

dono m (plural donos, feminine dona, feminine plural donas, metaphonic)

1. owner

   Sou o dono deste livro.

   I am the owner of this book.

2. patriarch; head of a home or family
3. (form of address) master (used by a slave to address his owner)

Verb

dono

1. first-person singular present indicative of donar

Etymology

Compare Ternate dun, Sahu dunungu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪o.n̪o/

Noun

dono

1. mother-in-law
2. daughter-in-law

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics