different between nono vs taboo

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

English

Alternative forms

• tabu, tapu

Etymology

Borrowing from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. The word entered English around 1777.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??bu?/, /tæ?bu?/

Noun

taboo (countable and uncountable, plural taboos)

1. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:

     The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.

2. (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

Translations

Adjective

taboo (comparative more taboo, superlative most taboo)

1. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

   Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.

2. Culturally forbidden.

Translations

Verb

taboo (third-person singular simple present taboos, present participle tabooing, simple past and past participle tabooed)

1. To mark as taboo.
2. To ban.
3. To avoid.

Translations

Anagrams

• aboot