# leno
## English
### Etymology

From French linon (“lawn (linen fabric)”), from lin (“linen; flax”) + -on.

### Noun

leno
* (textiles) A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

#### Synonyms

* (type of weave): gauze weave, leno weave

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “leno, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* leno weave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* lone, Noël, Noel, neol., Léon, enol, one L, Nole, noël, Leon, nole, noel, NOEL, elon, Elno, Elon, León

## Kashubian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.nɔ/
* Rhymes: -ɛnɔ
* Syllabification: le‧no

### Adverb

leno (not comparable)
* only, merely, solely
    Synonyms: le, blós

### Further reading

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tylko”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “leno”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Latin
### Etymology

Unknown; likely a foreign word.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.noː/, [ˈɫ̪eːnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.no/, [ˈlɛːno]

### Noun

lēnō m (genitive lēnōnis); third declension
* pimp, procurer
** c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.3.5:Heus tu, leno, te volo. - Et ego te volo.Ah there, pimp, I want you! - And I want you.
* seducer

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* lēna
* lēnō
* lēnōcināmentum
* lēnōcinium
* lēnōcinor
* lēnōnicē
* lēnōnius
* lēnullus
* lēnunculus

#### Descendants

* Italian: lenone
* Spanish: lenón

### Verb

lēnō (present infinitive lēnāre, supine lēnātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem
* to pimp, to pander

#### References

* Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “leno”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 351
* “leno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “leno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* leno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to act the rôle of a slave, pander: agere servum, lenonem
* “leno”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “leno”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* ↑ Latin
* ↑ English

## Old Leonese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʎeno(u)/

### Adjective

leno
* (Asturias) Alternative form of xeno

#### Descendants

* Asturian: enllenu, llenu, llen
* Leonese: llenu

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* lijȇno (Ijekavian)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lêːno/
* Hyphenation: le‧no

#### Adverb

lȇno (Cyrillic spelling ле̑но)
* lazily

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

leno
* neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of len