different between noon vs nono

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English n?n (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin n?na (“ninth hour”) (short for n?na h?ra), feminine of n?nus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Noun

noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)

1. The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

2. (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
   • 1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:
3. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
4. (figuratively) The highest point; culmination.

   • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

Synonyms

• (ninth hour of daylight): nones
• (midpoint of the day): midday, nones, noontide, twelve; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (midnight): noon of night; see also Thesaurus:midnight
• (highest point): capstone; see also Thesaurus:apex

Antonyms

• (middle of the night): midnight

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Verb

noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

1. To relax or sleep around midday
   • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle

     We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

   • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX

     Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

   • 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail

     Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Etymology 2

Noun

noon (plural noons)

1. The letter ? in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• no no, no-no, nono

Arapaho

Noun

noon

1. egg

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English n?n, from ne + ?n.

Determiner

noon

1. no (not any)
   • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

Descendants

• English: none
• Scots: nane

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: no?on
• IPA^(key): /no?on/

Adverb

noon

1. when

2. indicates past time

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