# nono
## English
### Noun

nono (plural nonos)
* Alternative spelling of no-no

### Anagrams

* Noon, noon

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* nóono

### Etymology

From Venetan nono, from Late Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”).

### Noun

nono m (plural non)
* (Luserna) grandfather
    Synonym: èno

#### Coordinate terms

* nona

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔ.no/, /no.no/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)
* (Quebec) fool, idiot

## Friulian
### Etymology

Compare Italian nonno, Venetan nono. Ultimately from Latin nonnus.

### Noun

nono m (plural nonos)
* grandfather

#### Synonyms

* von

#### Related terms

* none

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* 9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)

### Etymology

From Latin novēnus.

### Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
* ninth
    Synonym: noveno

### Noun

nono m (plural nonos)
* ninth
    Synonym: noveno

#### Related terms

* nove

### Contraction

nono m (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
* 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.

### Further reading

* “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.

## Garo
### Noun

nono
* younger sister

#### Synonyms

* nogipa (formal)
* no

## Hausa
### Etymology

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

* IPA: /nóː.nòː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [nóː.nòː]

### Noun

nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)
* milk
* a woman's breast

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin nonnus.

### Noun

nono m
* grandfather

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔ.no/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔno
* Hyphenation: nò‧no

### Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural noni, feminine plural none)
* (ordinal number) ninth

### Noun

nono m (plural noni)
* (fractional number) ninth

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono; compare Apalaí nono, Trió nono, Panare ano, Akawaio non, Macushi non, Pemon nono, Ye'kwana nono.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [noːno]

### Noun

nono (possessed yinonory)
* earth, soil
* land

### References

* 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

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Late Latin nonno.

### Noun

nono m
* grandfather
    Synonyms: papú, granpapa, avuelo

#### Coordinate terms

* (gender): nona

## Latin
### Numeral

nōnō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus

### References

* “nono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nunuh, from Proto-Austronesian *nunuh. Compare Kulon-Pazeh nunuh and Tsou nunʼu.

### Noun

nono
* breast

#### Synonyms

* tratra

#### Derived terms

* minono
* mampinono
* fampinonoana

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Italian nonno (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).

### Noun

nono m
* grandfather
    Coordinate term: nu'na

### References

* “nono” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Nias
### Noun

nono
* mutated form of ono (“child”)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈno.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈno.nu/
* Hyphenation: no‧no

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.

#### Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
* (ordinal number) ninth
    Synonym: noveno

#### Noun

nono m (plural nonos)
* (fractional number) ninth (one of nine parts of a whole)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Venetan nono (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).

#### Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nona, feminine plural nonas)
* (South Brazil, familiar) grandfather

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin nonus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnono/ [ˈno.no]
* Rhymes: -ono
* Syllabification: no‧no

### Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
* (rare) ninth
    Synonym: noveno

### Noun

nono m (plural nonos)
* (fractional number, rare) ninth

### Further reading

* “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

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

-nono (declinable)
* fat

#### Usage notes

Only used of animals; for people, use -nene.

#### Declension
## Tauya
### Noun

nono
* child

### References

* Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

## Trió
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono. Compare Ye'kwana nono, Macushi non, Panare ano.

### Noun

nono
* earth, ground

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

### Noun

nono m (plural noni)
* grandfather

#### Coordinate terms

* nona

#### Descendants

* → Cimbrian: nono, nóono
* → Portuguese: nono

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nono.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nono]

### Noun

nono (possessed nonodü)
* earth, soil
* earth, world beneath the sky
* dry land

#### Derived terms

* nono aküdü

### References

* 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”