# sino
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: si‧no
* IPA: /ˈsino/ [ˈs̪i.n̪o]

### Noun

sino
* mature coconut fruit

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin sinus (“bosom; pocket, lap”). Compare Italian seno, French sein. Doublet of sinuso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsino]
* Rhymes: -ino
* Hyphenation: si‧no

### Noun

sino (accusative singular sinon, plural sinoj, accusative plural sinojn)
* lap (upper legs of a seated person)
    La knabo sidis sur la sino de sia avino.The boy sat on his grandmother's lap.

#### Derived terms

* sinokomputilo (“laptop”)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sino (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin signum (“bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Portuguese sino.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.no̝/

### Noun

sino m (plural sinos)
* bell
    Synonym: campá
* sign
    Synonyms: signo, sinal
* destiny, fate
    Synonym: destino

#### Derived terms

* Monte do Sino
* sineiro
* Sineiro
* Sino

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sino”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sino”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sino”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Inari Sami
### Etymology

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

### Noun

siṇo
* short grass

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.no/
* Rhymes: -ino
* Hyphenation: sì‧no

### Preposition

sino
* Alternative form of fino

#### Derived terms

* sin d'ora
* sin da
* sin qui
* persino
* sinché
* sinora

### Anagrams

* Niso, Sion, niso, soni

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* sinón

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sinon.

### Conjunction

sino (Hebrew spelling סינו)
* but (rather)
** 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎, Isis, →ISBN, page 361:‘Yo no so hombre, sino mujer djudia i ainda esto muchacha i atada kon un mansevo.’I am no man, but rather a Jewess and I remain a maiden committed with a lad.’
* if not; otherwise
** 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎, Isis, →ISBN, page 81:“Senior,” disho Yaakov, “kere merkar la lolana? Sino la vendere a alungo de otro.”‘Sir,’ said Jacob, ‘want to buy the dress? Otherwise I shall sell it to somebody else.’

### References

* ↑ “sino”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sinō, from Proto-Indo-European *tḱi-né-ti, denominative present of the root *tḱey- (“to build, cultivate”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsi.noː/, [ˈs̠ɪnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsi.no/, [ˈsiːno]

### Verb

sinō (present infinitive sinere, perfect active sīvī or siī, supine situm); third conjugation
* (with accusative of person and infinitive) to let, permit, allow, suffer
    Synonyms: remittō, permittō, immittō, concēdō, cēdō, condōnō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.17–18:hoc rēgnum dea gentibus esse – sī quā fāta sinant – iam tum tenditque fovetque.The goddess already aims and fondly hopes that this kingdom – if in any way the fates were to allow it – become [sovereign] over nations. (In other words, long before the founding of Rome the goddess Juno wanted Carthage to become the imperial city. See: Juno (mythology); Carthage.)
* to put, lay, set down
    Synonyms: collocō, impōnō, pōnō, cōnstituō, statuō, fīgō, sistō

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* dēsinō
* pōnō
* situs

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sinō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 566-7

### Further reading

* “sino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
* “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Nias
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sinaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *siNaʀ.

### Noun

sino (mutated form zino)
* sunshine

#### Derived terms

* mosino

### References

* Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 187.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Old Occitan senh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.no/

### Noun

sino m (plural sinos)
* bell
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 66 (facsimile):
    ſan pedro ſino tagia
       Saint Peter rang the bell

#### Synonyms

* campãa

#### Descendants

* Galician: sino
* Portuguese: sino (see there for further descendants)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsĩ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsĩ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsi.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsi.nu/
* Rhymes: -inu
* Hyphenation: si‧no

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”).
Cognate with Galician sino, Catalan seny and Romansch zain. Also related to French tocsin and English tocsin (both ultimately from Old Occitan senh (“bell”)). Doublet of senha, senho, and signo.

#### Noun

sino m (plural sinos)
* bell (percussive instrument)
** 1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia:Ó sino da minha aldeia, Dolente na tarde calma, Cada tua badalada Soa dentro da minha alma.O bell of my village, Doleful in the calm afternoon, Each of thy tollings Sounds inside my soul.

##### Derived terms

* calças à boca de sino
* sineiro
* sineta
* torre sineira

##### Related terms

* assinar
* selo
* senha
* senho
* sigilo
* signa
* signo
* sina
* sinal

##### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: sinu
* Sinhalese: සීනුව (sīnuwa)
* Tetum: sinu

##### See also

* badalo
* campa
* campainha
* carrilhão
* chocalho
* guizo

### Etymology 2

From Latin sinus. Doublet of seio and seno.

#### Noun

sino m (plural sinos)
* (archaic) gulf
    Synonyms: enseada, golfo

##### Related terms

* seio
* seno

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

sino (Cyrillic spelling сино)
* vocative singular of sina

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsino/ [ˈsi.no]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ino
* Syllabification: si‧no

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin signum. Doublet of signo, cf. also seña. Cognate with English sign.

#### Noun

sino m (plural sinos)
* destiny, fate, lot
    Synonyms: hado, destino, azar, fario

### Etymology 2

Univerbation of si (“if”) +‎ no (“not”). Compare Portuguese senão, French sinon.

#### Conjunction

sino
* but (after a negative clause) (i.e., "but rather", "but only", or "but rather only")
    No es cantante, sino actor. ― He is not a singer, but an actor.
* except, apart from
    Synonyms: excepto, menos, salvo
    Todos fueron al parque, sino María. ― Everyone went to the park, except Maria.
* only, solely (in a negative clause)
    No eres sino un alumno. ― You are solely a student.

### Further reading

* “sino”, 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

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* cno — text messaging

### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *si-nu. By surface analysis, si +‎ ano. Compare Brooke's Point Palawano sinu, Ilocano sino, Waray-Waray hin-o, and Yami sino. See also Malay si + Malay anu.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsino/ [ˈsiː.n̪o]
* Rhymes: -ino
* Syllabification: si‧no

### Pronoun

sino (plural sino-sino, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈᜓ)
* (interrogative) who

#### Derived terms

* gasino
* pagsinuhin
* sinech
* siney
* sino man
* sino-sino
* sinuhin

### Further reading

* “sino”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* nosi, inso, Ison

## Yami
### Etymology

Compare Brooke's Point Palawano sinu, Ilocano sino, Waray-Waray hin-o, and Tagalog sino.

### Pronoun

sino
* (interrogative) who

## Zia
### Noun

sino
* dog