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 , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/

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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

• 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 m (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)

1. Contraction of non o (“not it/him”).
   • 2012, José Domínguez Fortes, O cambra‎:

     Os romanos esixían ós galaicos que baixaran do monte. Pouco a pouco se foron convencendo que tiñan que facelo para cultivala terra, e evolucionar. Pero esta familia, moi agarimada ó lugar, nono fixo. Ficou alí.

     The Romans demanded that the Galicians get off the mountain. Little by little, they got convinced that they had to do it in order to cultivate the land and develop. But this family, being very attached to the place, didn't do it. They stayed there.

• “nono” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “nono”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “nono” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.

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):

nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)

1. milk
2. a woman's breast

From Latin nonnus.

nono m

1. grandfather

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):

nono (possessed yinonory)

1. earth, soil
2. land

• 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

From Late Latin nonno.

nono m

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

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/
• 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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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

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

• IPA^(key):

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, 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”