nono

nono (plural nonos)

1. Alternative spelling of no-no

• Noon, noon

• nóono

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

nono m (plural non)

1. (Luserna) grandfather

   Synonym: èno

• nona

• 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

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/

• Audio:

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nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)

1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

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

nono m (plural nonos)

1. grandfather

• von

• none

Galician numbers ^(edit)

	90[a], [b]
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nove     Ordinal (reintegrationist): nono     Ordinal (standard): noveno     Ordinal abbreviation: 9º     Multiplier: nónuplo
Galician Wikipedia article on 9

• 9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)

From Latin novēnus.

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

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

nono m (plural nonos)

1. ninth

   Synonym: noveno

• nove

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

nono

1. younger sister

• nogipa (formal)
• no

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”).

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

nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)

1. milk
2. a woman's breast

From Latin nonnus.

nono m

1. grandfather

Italian numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nove     Ordinal: nono     Ordinal abbreviation: 9º     Adverbial: nove volte     Multiplier: nonuplo     Collective: tutti e nove     Fractional: nono
Italian Wikipedia article on 9

From Latin nōnus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.no/

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• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: nò‧no

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

1. (ordinal number) ninth

nono m (plural noni)

1. (fractional number) ninth

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

• IPA^(key): [noːno]

nono (possessed yinonory)

1. earth, soil
2. land

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], 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^[2], Paris, 1956, page 317

From Late Latin nonno.

nono m (Latin spelling)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: papú, granpapa, avuelo

• (gender): nona

nōnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus

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

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

nono

1. breast

• tratra

• minono
• mampinono
• fampinonoana

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

nono m

1. grandfather

   Coordinate term: nu'na

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

nono

1. mutated form of ono (“child”)

• Hyphenation: no‧no

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: nove     Ordinal: nono, noveno     Ordinal abbreviation: 9.º     Multiplier (Brazil): nônuplo     Multiplier (Portugal): nónuplo     Fractional: nono, noveno     Group: noneto
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 9

From Old Galician-Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.

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

1. (ordinal number) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

nono m (plural nonos)

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

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

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

1. (South Brazil, familiar) grandfather

From Latin nonus.

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

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

1. (rare) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

nono m (plural nonos)

1. (fractional number, rare) ninth

• “nono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• Audio (Kenya):

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-nono (declinable)

1. fat

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

nono

1. child

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

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

nono

1. earth, ground

From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

nono m (plural noni)

1. grandfather

• nona

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

Variant orthographies

ALIV	nono
Brazilian standard	nono
New Tribes	nono

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

• IPA^(key): [nono]

nono (possessed nonodü)

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

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 187, 189: “nono”