# seno
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech sěno, from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛno]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛno
* Hyphenation: se‧no

### Noun

seno n
* hay
    sušit seno ― to make hay
    hledat jehlu v kupce sena ― to look for a needle in a haystack

#### Derived terms

* seník
* senná rýma
* senný

### Further reading

* “seno”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “seno”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “seno”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sinus (“fold, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Romansch sain, Romanian sân, Spanish seno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse.no/
* Rhymes: -eno
* Hyphenation: sé‧no

### Noun

seno m (plural seni)
* breast
* (by extension) bosom, heart, breast
** 1787, “Don Giovanni”, Lorenzo Da Ponte (lyrics), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), act 1, scene 1:L'assassino m'ha ferito, / e dal seno palpitante / sento l’anima partirThe assassin has wounded me! / And from my heaving breast / I see my soul escaping
* (literary) womb
* (geography) cove, inlet
* (anatomy) sinus
* (trigonometry) sine

#### Synonyms

* (breast): petto

#### Related terms

* coseno
* reggiseno
* seno etmoidale
* seno frontale
* senologia
* seno mascellare
* seno paranasale
* seno sfenoidale
* sinusale
* sinusite

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.noː/, [ˈs̠eːnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.no/, [ˈsɛːno]

### Numeral

sēnō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēnus

## Latvian
### Adjective

seno
* inflection of sens:
** definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
** definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsʲæːno]

### Adjective

sẽno m
* genitive masculine singular of senas

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěno. Cognate with Upper Sorbian syno, Polish siano, Czech seno, Russian се́но (séno), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛnɔ/

### Noun

seno n (diminutive senko)
* hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “seno”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
* Starosta, Manfred (1999) “seno”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* सेनो (Devanagari script)
* সেনো (Bengali script)
* සෙනො (Sinhalese script)
* သေနော or သေၼေႃ (Burmese script)
* เสโน (Thai script)
* ᩈᩮᨶᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ເສໂນ (Lao script)
* សេនោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄬𑄚𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

seno
* nominative singular of sena (“hawk”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sinus (“sine”), from Latin sinus (“curve, breast”). Doublet of seio and sino.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsẽ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsẽ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈse.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈse.nu/
* Homophone: ceno
* Hyphenation: se‧no

### Noun

seno m (plural senos)
* (trigonometry) sine

#### Derived terms

* senoide
* cosseno

#### Related terms

* seio

### References

* ↑ “seno”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

#### Alternative forms

* sijȇno (Ijekavian)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sêːno/
* Hyphenation: se‧no

#### Noun

sȇno n (Cyrillic spelling се̑но)
* hay

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “seno”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

seno (Cyrillic spelling сено)
* vocative singular of sena

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsenɔ]

### Noun

seno n
* hay

#### Derived terms

* senný
* sienko, sience

### Further reading

* “seno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěno, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śáina, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“pale, faint”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛnóː/
* Rhymes: -oː
* Hyphenation: se‧no

### Noun

senọ̑ n
* hay of the first mowing in a year
    Synonyms: košenina, mrva, arnica, jarnica, košeničica, vrnica
* (by extension, colloquial) any hay

#### Derived terms

* grško seno
* iskati iglo v kopici sena
* iskati iglo v senu
* iskati kot iglo v senu
* iskati šivanko v senu
* jašek za seno
* najti iglo v kopici sena
* najti iglo v senu
* puhalnik za seno
* senẹ̑n
* seník
* seno – slama
* Senovo
* Senožeče
* senožẹ̑t

### See also

* trava (“grass”)
* otava
* otavič
* slama

### Further reading

* “seno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “seno”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Sotho
### Etymology

From nwa.

### Noun

seno class 7/8 (plural dino)
* beverage

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish seno, from Latin sinus, from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseno/ [ˈse.no]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eno
* Syllabification: se‧no

### Noun

seno m (plural senos)
* (anatomy) breast
* (anatomy) sinus
* (mathematics) sine
* (geography) sound (inlet)
* (nautical) trough

#### Derived terms

* auxiliar de conversación
* conversación de sobremesa
* seno maxilar
* seno verso

#### Related terms

* sen

### Further reading

* “seno”, 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

### Anagrams

* no sé
* soné
* soñé

## Trinitario
### Noun

seno
* woman

### References

* Swintha Danielsen, Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages, page 4, 2011