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-ano
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ano"
Esperanto
Etymology
Likely from Latin -ānus. Compare Italian -ano, Spanish -ano, English -an, French -en, Portuguese -ão.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ano
- (nominal) inhabitant of, member of, partisan of
- ex. Novjorko (“New York City”) + -ano → novjorkano (“New Yorker”)
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Interlingua
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English -an, French -ain, Italian -ano, Portuguese -ano/Spanish -ano, all ultimately from Latin -ānus.
Pronunciation
Suffix
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-ano
- forms nouns from nouns, denoting a native, citizen or inhabitant; -an
- forms nouns from nouns, denoting a language; -an
- forms nouns from nouns, denoting an adherent or follower; -an
Usage notes
Derived terms
Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -ano not found
References
- Alexander Gode; Hugh E. Blair (1955), Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN
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Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin -ant.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ano (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
- used with a stem to form the third-person plural present tense of regular -are verbs
- used with a stem to form the third-person plural present subjunctive of regular -ere and -ire verbs
- used with a stem to form the third-person imperative of regular -ere and those -ire verbs that do not take -isc
Etymology 2
From Latin -ānus (adjectival derivational suffix).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -ani, feminine plural -ane) -ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ani, feminine -ana)
- (productive, relational) forms adjectives from locations, meaning “of, from or related to the location”
- (productive) forms nouns from locations, meaning “someone from the location”
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ani)
- (organic chemistry) -ane (in the names of hydrocarbons)
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Latin
Suffix
-ānō
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -ānus, from -nus, from Proto-Italic *-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós. Doublet of -ão.
Suffix
-ano
- forms demonyms from place names
Derived terms
Category Old Galician-Portuguese terms suffixed with -ano not found
Descendants
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -ano, a learned borrowing from Latin -ānus, from -nus, from Proto-Italic *-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós. Doublet of -ão.
Suffix
-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -anos, feminine plural -anas)
Suffix
-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos, feminine -ana, feminine plural -anas)
- forms nouns, from a placename, denoting someone from that place; -an
- forms nouns, from a placename, denoting the main or traditional language spoken in that place; -an
- forms nouns, from a person’s name, denoting someone who believes in the religion, philosophy or theory created by that person
- Immanuel Kant + -ano → kantiano (“Kantian”)
- forms nouns, from the name of a star sign, denoting someone born under that star sign
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French -ane or English -ane.
Suffix
-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos)
- (organic chemistry) forms the names of saturated hydrocarbons
Further reading
- “-ano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “-ano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Spanish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun.
Alternative forms
Suffix
-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -anos, feminine plural -anas)
- coming from, related to, or like
- California (“California”) + -ano → californiano (“Californian”)
Suffix
-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos, feminine -ana, feminine plural -anas)
- one from, belonging to, relating to, made from, or like
- California (“California”) + -ano → californiano (“Californian”)
Usage notes
See also
Etymology 2
Suffix
-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos)
- (organic chemistry) -ane (in the names of hydrocarbons)
See also
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-ano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈano/ [ˈaː.n̪o]
- Rhymes: -ano
- Syllabification: -a‧no
Suffix
-ano (noun-forming suffix, adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, Baybayin spelling ◌ᜈᜓ)
- Demonym suffix, forms nouns and adjectives indicating or describing that one comes from, belongs to, is related to, or is like those from what the root specifies
- probinsiya (“province”) + -ano → probinsiyano (“provincial”)
- Korea (“Korea”) + -ano → Koreano (“Korean”)
- Amerika (“America”) + -ano → Amerikano (“American”)
- Italya (“Italy”) + -ano → Italyano (“Italian”)
- Mehiko (“Mexico”) + -ano → Mehikano (“Mexican”)
- Cebu (“Cebu”) + -ano → Cebuano (“person from Cebu”)
- Bohol (“Bohol”) + -ano → Boholano (“person from Bohol”)
- Bikol (“Bicol”) + -ano → Bikolano (“person from Bikol region”)
- Iloko (“Ilocos language”) + -ano → Ilokano (“person from Ilocos region”)
Usage notes
- Forms demonym nouns, which can also be used as adjectives.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “-ano”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
Anagrams
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Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ano
- Forms nouns from many postpositions and some (chiefly spatial) adverbs, typically with the sense of ‘one that (is (at)) …’, ‘one that has the quality of …’.
Usage notes
When attaching to a final vowel e, this suffix takes the form -ano, with the first vowel replacing the e; when attaching to i, it takes the form -ño; in all other circumstances it takes the form -no.
Derived terms
References
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