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lino
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɪnəʊ/
- Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1
Clipping of linoleum, probably influenced by -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)
- (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)
- (UK, colloquial, informal, soccer) Abbreviation of linesman.
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Noun
lino
Further reading
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 Superseded by linen.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
Adjective
lino
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Verb
lino
Derived terms
- lininoan
Czech
Etymology
Clipping of linoleum.
Pronunciation
Noun
lino n
Declension
Declension of lino (hard neuter)
Derived terms
- linoryt m
- linořez m
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
lino (uncountable, accusative linon)
- 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.
Derived terms
- lina (“flaxen”)
- linoleo (“linseed oil”)
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lino
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “lino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
lino m (plural linos)
Further reading
- “lino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.
Noun
lino m (plural lini)
Related terms
Further reading
- lino2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
Adjective
lino (feminine lina, masculine plural lini, feminine plural line)
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈlɪ.noː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.no]
Verb
linō (present infinitive linere, perfect active lēvī, supine litum); third conjugation
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
līnō
References
- “lino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “lĭnĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 357
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Makasar
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proto-South Sulawesi *lino (“the physical world, the earth”).
Noun
lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)
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)
- windless
- Linoi ― It is windless
- Linoi tamparanga ― The sea is windless
Affixations
- akkalinoang
- kalinoang
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)
Compounds
- lompo lino
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Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
lino f
Romanian
Noun
lino n (plural linouri)
- alternative form of linon
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.
Pronunciation
Noun
lino m (plural linos)
- linen
- Synonym: lienzo
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: lino
Further reading
- “lino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Yao
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ìjínò. Cognate with Chichewa dzino.
Noun
lino class 5 (plural meno)
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