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See also: Lino, Linô, liño, liñó, lǐno, and ḽiṋo

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of linoleum, probably influenced by -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, informal) Clipping of linoleum.
    • 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:
      But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.
    • 1996 July 20, Malcolm Tippett, “Dogs ...No Way”, in aus.jokes‎ (Usenet):
      The third thing was the TORN lino in the kitchen, new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of lino off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear, and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of lino to chew . We are still too scared to replace the lino as the next puppy will probably do the same .
    • 2002 October 30, Augie, “Frontline or Advantage for fleas?”, in aus.pets‎ (Usenet):
      When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino. When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.
    • 2010 April 25, George W Frost, “Found this old paper under the lino of a reno”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules‎ (Usenet):
      I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Contraction of linesman + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

  1. (UK, colloquial, informal, soccer) Abbreviation of linesman.
    • 2014 October 4, MartTheTaxi, “Twitter status”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:
      Lino flagged a bit late but was right

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Noun

lino

  1. person

Further reading

  • Bernard Sellato, Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest →ISBN, 1994)
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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: li‧no

Etymology 1

From Spanish lino, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom. Displaced balandan. Superseded by linen.

Noun

lino

  1. (archaic) linen; thread or cloth made from flax fiber

Adjective

lino

  1. (obsolete) made from linen cloth or thread

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

lino

  1. to rinse glasses, cups, buckets, etc.
Derived terms
  • lininoan

Czech

Etymology

Clipping of linoleum.

Pronunciation

Noun

lino n

  1. linoleum
    Synonym: linoleum

Declension

Declension of lino (hard neuter)
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Etymology

From Italian lino and French lin, both from Latin līnum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlino/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: li‧no

Noun

lino (uncountable, accusative linon)

  1. flax, linseed
    • 1907, Kabe, chapter 21, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:
      La oranĝaj kaj granataj arboj estis kovritaj de floroj, kaj sur la kampoj oni semis la linon, hordeon, fabon, fazeolon, kukumojn kaj aliajn legomojn.
      The orange and pomegranate trees were covered in flowers, and on the fields, flax, barley, fava bean, wild bean, cucumber, and other legumes were sown.

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Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of linoleumileikkaus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlino/, [ˈlino̞]
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Syllabification(key): li‧no
  • Hyphenation(key): li‧no

Noun

lino

  1. linocut

Declension

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

compounds

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

lino m (plural linos)

  1. lino (linoleum)
  2. linotype

Further reading

Italian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: lì‧no

Etymology 1

From Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.

Noun

lino m (plural lini)

  1. flax (plant and fiber)
  2. linen (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)

Further reading

  • lino2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin līneus (“flaxen”).

Adjective

lino (feminine lina, masculine plural lini, feminine plural line)

  1. (rare) of flax or linen; flaxen

Further reading

  • lino1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *linō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

linō (present infinitive linere, perfect active lēvī, supine litum); third conjugation

  1. to daub, besmear, anoint
Conjugation
   Conjugation of linō (third conjugation)
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Derived terms
Descendants
  • Italian: linire
  • Occitan:
    • Auvergnat: inî
    • Gascon: liá
  • Old French: liner
  • Romansch: lenar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

līnō

  1. dative/ablative singular of līnum

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Makasar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlino/, [ˈli.nõ]
  • Hyphenation: li‧no

Etymology 1

Proto-South Sulawesi *lino (“the physical world, the earth”).

Noun

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

  1. world
    Synonym: alang
  2. earth
Affixations
  • aʼlino
  • pakkalinoang
  • paʼlino
Compounds
  • panngassengang lino

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *lino, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *linaw (“calm, still, as the surface of water”).

Adjective

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

  1. windless
    Linoi ― It is windless
    Linoi tamparanga ― The sea is windless

Affixations

  • akkalinoang
  • kalinoang

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

  1. libido, sex drive
    Tau tena linona ― A person who has no libido (impotent man)
Compounds
  • lompo lino

Further reading

  • A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI
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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.nɔ/
  • Rhymes: -inɔ
  • Syllabification: li‧no

Noun

lino f

  1. vocative singular of lina

Romanian

Noun

lino n (plural linouri)

  1. alternative form of linon

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Spanish

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Etymology

Inherited from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlino/ [ˈli.no]
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Syllabification: li‧no

Noun

lino m (plural linos)

  1. linen
    Synonym: lienzo
  2. flax
    Synonym: filasa
    • 1774, Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, Discurso sobre el fomento de la Industria popular:
      Aunque el cáñamo es más barato, como cosa de una cuarta parte menos que el lino, este último rinde mucho mayor número de varas en la manufactura.
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Descendants

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Yao

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ìjínò. Cognate with Chichewa dzino.

Noun

lino class 5 (plural meno)

  1. tooth

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