different between mono vs nono

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?no?/
• Hyphenation: mon?o

Etymology 1

Noun

mono (uncountable)

1. (informal) Clipping of mononucleosis.

Etymology 2

Probably from the prefix mono- meaning “one, single”.

Noun

mono (plural monos)

1. (slang, Britain, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding

Synonyms

• wheelie

Etymology 3

Clipping of monophonic.

Adjective

mono (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

   Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

Antonyms

• stereo

Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of monochrome.

Adjective

mono (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Monochrome.
   • 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 4, page 125:

     The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.

Etymology 5

Clipping of monomorphism.

Noun

mono (plural monos)

1. (category theory) Abbreviation of monomorphism.

Related terms

• monic

Etymology 6

Clipping of monoamorous.

Adjective

mono (comparative more mono, superlative most mono)

1. (chiefly informal) Monoamorous, monogamous.

Coordinate terms

• poly

Noun

mono (plural monos)

1. (informal) A monogamous person.

Etymology 7

Clipping of monosexual.

Adjective

mono (comparative more mono, superlative most mono)

1. (chiefly informal) Monosexual.
   • 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution (?ISBN):

     People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

   • 2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century (?ISBN), page 37:

     That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]

Coordinate terms

• bi, pan

Anagrams

• Moon, OMON, moon, nomo-

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

mono m (plural monos)

1. monkey

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “mono”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French monnaie and English money.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mono/
• Hyphenation: mo?no
• Rhymes: -ono
• Audio:

Noun

mono (accusative singular monon, plural monoj, accusative plural monojn)

1. money

Derived terms

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mono/, [?mo?no?]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: mo?no

Etymology 1

From a trademark "Mono", registered in 1932 by Lahden Saapas- ja Lapikasteollisuus O.Y, since 1943 Mono Oy. The name was chosen as result of a contest. The winner justified the name by explaining that it came from Ancient Greek ????? (mónos, “unique”), which described the positioning of the skiing shoes of the firm on the market. It didn't probably hurt that the founder of the firm was Jussi Mononen.

Noun

mono

1. skiing shoe
2. (slang, by extension) shoe

Declension

Synonyms

• (skiing shoe): hiihtokenkä

Derived terms

• antaa monoa (to fire, dismiss; see antaa potkut)
• monottaa

Etymology 2

< monofoninen (“monophonic”)

Adjective

mono

1. mono (having only a single audio channel)

Declension

Synonyms

• monofoninen

Anagrams

• moon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.no/

Etymology 1

Truncation of monophonique

Adjective

mono (plural monos)

1. monophonic, monaural

Etymology 2

Clipping of moniteur + -o.

Noun

mono m (plural monos)

1. (informal) supervisor, leader (in a camp)

Further reading

• “mono” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

mono m (plural monos)

1. ape

Italian

Adjective

mono

1. single (of one part)

Japanese

Romanization

mono

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Adjective

mono

1. Abbreviation of monofonisks

Noun

mono f (invariable)

1. Abbreviation of monofonija

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably borrowed from or related to Spanish mono.

Noun

mono m (plural monos)

1. monkey; ape
2. (figuratively) lazy or ugly person
3. (figuratively) deadstock
4. (figuratively) bulky waste

Spanish

Etymology

Haplographically from maimón (“monkey”), from Arabic ????????? (maym?n, “baboon, mandrill”). Compare English monkey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mono/, [?mo.no]

Adjective

mono (feminine mona, masculine plural monos, feminine plural monas) (superlative monísimo)

1. (Spain, colloquial) cute, pretty

   Synonyms: bonito, cuqui

2. (Colombia, colloquial) blond, blonde

   Synonym: rubio

Noun

mono m (plural monos, feminine mona, feminine plural monas)

1. monkey

   Synonyms: chango, maimón, mico, simio, (Louisiana) macaco

2. boiler suit, coveralls, overall, onesie (a one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour)

   Synonyms: mono de trabajo, mameluco, braga, buzo, overol

3. jumpsuit (a one-piece item of clothing originally by parachutists)
4. jumpsuit (a female one-piece item of clothing)
5. (Chile, Peru) tracksuit, joggers (garment consisting of a top and trousers for sports and casual wear)

   Synonyms: buzo, chándal

6. (Costa Rica, slang) the vulva or vagina
7. (Mexico, Chile) doll, puppet

   Synonym: muñeco

8. (colloquial) withdrawal symptom

   Synonym: síndrome de abstinencia

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mono” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

nono (plural nonos)

1. Alternative spelling of no-no

Anagrams

• Noon, noon

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• nóono

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m (plural non)

1. (Luserna) grandfather

   Synonym: èno

Coordinate terms

• nona

References

• “nono” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Pronunciation

Noun

nono

1. (Quebec) fool, idiot

Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m (plural nonos)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• von

Related terms

• none

Garo

Noun

nono

1. 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.

Noun

n?n? m (possessed form n?nòn)

1. milk
2. a woman's breast

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin nonnus.

Noun

nono m

1. grandfather

Italian

Etymology

From Latin n?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.no/
• Hyphenation: nò?no
• Rhymes: -?no

Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural noni, feminine plural none)

1. ninth

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. ninth (fraction)

nono m (plural noni, feminine nona)

1. ninth (one in 9th position)

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Ladino

Etymology

From Late Latin nonno.

Noun

nono m (Latin spelling)

1. grandfather

Synonyms

• avuelo
• papú

Coordinate terms

• (gender): nona

Latin

Numeral

n?n?

1. dative masculine singular of n?nus
2. dative neuter singular of n?nus
3. ablative masculine singular of n?nus
4. ablative neuter singular of n?nus

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 nun?u.

Noun

nono

1. breast

Derived terms

• minono
• mampinono
• fampinonoana

Synonyms

• tratra

Maquiritari

Noun

nono

1. soil, earth, ground

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

Noun

nono m

1. 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.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?no.nu/
• Hyphenation: no?no

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nono, from Latin nonus.

Alternative forms

• 9º (abbreviation)

Ordinal number

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

1. ninth

Etymology 2

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

Noun

nono m (plural nonos, feminine nona, feminine plural nonas)

1. (South Brazil, familiar) grandfather

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nono/, [?no.no]

Adjective

nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)

1. (unusual) ninth

   Synonym: noveno

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-nono (declinable)

1. fat

Usage notes

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

Inflection

Tauya

Noun

nono

1. child

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Venetian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.

Noun

nono m (plural noni)

1. grandfather

Coordinate terms

• nona

Descendants

• ? Cimbrian: nono, nóono
• ? Portuguese: nono