nono

Noun

nono (plural nonos)

1. Alternative spelling of no-no

Anagrams

• Noon, noon

Alternative forms

• nóono

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m (plural non)

1. (Luserna) grandfather

   Synonym: èno

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/

• Audio:

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Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)

1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. grandfather

Alternative forms

• 9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Latin novēnus.

Adjective

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

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Related terms

• nove

Further reading

• “nono”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Noun

nono

1. younger sister

Etymology

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

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

Noun

nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)

1. milk
2. a woman's breast

Etymology

From Latin nonnus.

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.no/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: nò‧no

Adjective

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

1. (ordinal number) ninth

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. (fractional number) ninth

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [noːno]

Noun

nono (possessed yinonory)

1. earth, soil
2. land

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, 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, Paris, 1956, page 317

Etymology

From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

nono m (Latin spelling)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: papú, granpapa, avuelo

Numeral

nōnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus

References

• “nono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology

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

Noun

nono

1. breast

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

   Coordinate term: nu'na

References

• “nono” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Noun

nono

1. mutated form of ono (“child”)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: no‧no

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology

From Latin nonus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. (rare) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. (fractional number, rare) ninth

Further reading

• “nono”, 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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Adjective

-nono (declinable)

1. fat

Noun

nono

1. child

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Etymology

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

Noun

nono

1. earth, ground

Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. grandfather

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nono]

Noun

nono (possessed nonodü)

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

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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, 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, Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 187, 189: “nono”