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nono

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

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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

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Galician

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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

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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Garo

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Noun

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nono

  1. younger sister

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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
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: nove
    Ordinal: nono
    Ordinal abbreviation: 9º
    Adverbial: nove volte
    Multiplier: nonuplo
    Collective: tutti e nove
    Fractional: nono
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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[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

Ladino

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Etymology

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From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

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nono m (Latin spelling)

  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

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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”).

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nono m

  1. grandfather
    Coordinate term: nu'na

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

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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

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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”
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