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Etymology
Univerbation of sí + no.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
sinó
- but (on the contrary)
- Els pares no es van barallar sinó que van anar al cinema. ― The old ones were not angry with each other, but they went to the cinema together.
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English snow.
Pronunciation
Noun
sinó m (uncountable)
- (US) snow
- Synonym: neve
- Manuel Cardoso, Nesta triste ocasião, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 31:
Muitas vezes me levanto / Em terrado no sino- Many times I get up / Buried in the snow
- 1978, Jerónimo Golçalves Trigueiro, Os Dois Aventureiros, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 105:
O estado de Nova Yorque, / Tanta água que chovia; / No estado de Massachusetts / Só «sinó» é que caía.- the state of New York, / So much water rained; / In the state of Massachusetts / Only snow had been falling.
- 2000, Onésimo Teotónio Almeida, (Sapa)teia americana: (contos), Edições Salamandra, page 174:
[…] , mas disse-me a Maria do Palinhas que o homem ouviu dizer no chápe que aquele sinó é dado cair nas montanhas, […]- , but Maria from Palinhas told me that she heard a man say in the factory that that snow tends to fall in the mountains,