porno
English
Etymology
Shortening of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɔːnəʊ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nəʊ
Adjective
porno (not comparable)
- Pornographic. [from the 1950s]
- That's a porno film.
- 1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- For reasons that still baffle me, “Deep Throat” became the one porno film in New York chic to see and to seen at, even before the court case, even before Earl Wilson wrote about it.
- 1978, Mario Pei, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying what You Don't Mean, page 15:
- […] ultra-risqué pictures verging on the pornographic (the most porno of the last-named have not yet made it to the TV screen, but they are getting there fast—witness the storm of protests over the situation comedy “Soap”).
Synonyms
Noun
porno (countable and uncountable, plural pornos)
- (uncountable) Pornography.
- 2004, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, page 190:
- In any case, porno is littered—porno is heaped—with the deaths of feelings.
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- (countable) A pornographic film.
- They watched a few pornos.
Related terms
Translations
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈporno]
- Hyphenation: por‧no
- Rhymes: -orno
Declension
Related terms
Adjective
porno
- pornographic
- Synonym: pornografický
- porno časopis ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- porno in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔrno/, [ˈpʰɒːno]
Noun
porno c (singular definite pornoen, not used in plural form)
- short form of pornografi (“pornography”) [from 1965]
Dutch
Etymology
Clipping of pornografie or a borrowing. First attested in the 1960s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.noː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: por‧no
Noun
porno f (uncountable)
- porn
- 1964 June 11, “Fanny Hill”, in Friese Koerier, volume 19, number 226, page 2:
- Voor het assimileren van de verschillen tussen porno en kunst, zoals die in de laatste jaren door experts als het echtpaar Kronhausen en anderen zijn vastgelegd, zal in Nederland wel weer veel tijd nodig zijn.
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Derived terms
Adjective
porno (used only predicatively, not comparable)
- (Netherlands, slang) hot, attractive, sexy
Estonian
Etymology
Clipping of pornograafia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈporno/
- Hyphenation: por‧no
Noun
porno (genitive porno, partitive pornot)
- porn
- Öösel aga võib palju pornot vaadata.
- But at night you can watch a lot of porn.
- (colloquial, figurative) Something stupid, annoying, tedious.
- 30 lapsele võõrkeele õpetamine on ikka paras porno küll.
- Teaching a foreign language to 30 children is really tedious.
- (literally, “Teaching a foreign language to 30 children is porn.”)
- Something of poor quality.
- A scandalous mess.
- Poliitiline porno.
- Political anarchy.
- (literally, “Political porn.”)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | porno | pornod |
accusative | porno | pornod |
genitive | porno | pornote |
partitive | pornot | pornoid |
illative | pornosse | pornotesse pornoisse |
inessive | pornos | pornotes pornois |
elative | pornost | pornotest pornoist |
allative | pornole | pornotele pornoile |
adessive | pornol | pornotel pornoil |
ablative | pornolt | pornotelt pornoilt |
translative | pornoks | pornoteks pornoiks |
terminative | pornoni | pornoteni |
essive | pornona | pornotena |
abessive | pornota | pornoteta |
comitative | pornoga | pornotega |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- lapsporno
- lasteporno
- pornoajakiri
- pornofilm
- pornosait
- pornostaar
- pornotäht
- pornotööstus
- sotsiaalporno
Finnish
Etymology
See pornografia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈporno/, [ˈpo̞rno̞]
- Rhymes: -orno
- Syllabification(key): por‧no
Noun
porno
- Clipping of pornografia; porn
- (in compounds) pornographic, porn
- pornoteollisuus = porn(ographic) industry
Declension
Inflection of porno (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | porno | pornot | ||
genitive | pornon | pornojen | ||
partitive | pornoa | pornoja | ||
illative | pornoon | pornoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | porno | pornot | ||
accusative | nom. | porno | pornot | |
gen. | pornon | |||
genitive | pornon | pornojen | ||
partitive | pornoa | pornoja | ||
inessive | pornossa | pornoissa | ||
elative | pornosta | pornoista | ||
illative | pornoon | pornoihin | ||
adessive | pornolla | pornoilla | ||
ablative | pornolta | pornoilta | ||
allative | pornolle | pornoille | ||
essive | pornona | pornoina | ||
translative | pornoksi | pornoiksi | ||
instructive | — | pornoin | ||
abessive | pornotta | pornoitta | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Compounds
- kostoporno
- lapsiporno
- lonkeroporno
- pornoaddikti
- pornoelokuva
- pornoelokuvateatteri
- pornofilmi
- pornokauppa
- pornoleffa
- pornolehti
- pornoluola
- pornonäyttelijä
- pornoriippuvainen
- pornoriippuvaisuus
- pornosivu
- pornosivusto
- pornoteollisuus
- pornotähti
- pornovideo
- ruokaporno
- sosiaaliporno
- sotaporno
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Clipping of pornographique.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) Audio (CAN) (file)
Noun
porno m (plural pornos)
- (uncountable, informal) porno; porn
- l'industrie du porno ― the porn industry
- (countable, informal) a porn movie, a skin flick, a blue movie
Further reading
- “porno”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Synonyms
- pornográfico m, pornográfica f
Usage notes
Like foto, the shortened form of fotografia, this shortened form of pornografia is properly feminine, but sometimes used as a masculine noun.
Synonyms
Indonesian
Etymology
Clipping of pornografi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɔr.no]
- Hyphenation: por‧no
Noun
porno (first-person possessive pornoku, second-person possessive pornomu, third-person possessive pornonya)
- (colloquial) pornography.
- Synonym: pornografi
Adjective
porno (first-person possessive pornoku, second-person possessive pornomu, third-person possessive pornonya)
- (colloquial) lewd, lascivious, lustful.
- Synonyms: cabul, mesum
Further reading
- “porno” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Clipping of pornografia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.no/
- Rhymes: -ɔrno
- Hyphenation: pòr‧no
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpuːr.nʊ/
Portuguese
Etymology
Clipping of pornográfico and pornografia.[1]
Adjective
porno (invariable, not comparable) (European spelling)
- (informal) pornographic
- Synonym: pornográfico
References
- “porno” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
Further reading
- “porno” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpor.no]
Usage notes
This word is not a noun, although it is sometimes used as one. In order to avoid ambiguity, a phrase such as film porno or revistă porno should be used.
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | porno | porno | porno | porno | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | porno | porno | porno | porno | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Spanish
Etymology 1
Clipping of pornográfico.
Noun
porno m (uncountable)
- (colloquial) porno, porn, especially the concept or the industry
- Synonym: pornografía
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Clipping of pornografía
Noun
porno m or f (countable and uncountable, plural pornos)
- (colloquial) porn, especially the produced material
Further reading
- “porno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
“El porno / la porno”, in WordReference Forums, November 2013, retrieved July 21st, 2021
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpoɾno]
- Hyphenation: por‧no
Declension
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Definite accusative | pornoyu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | porno | pornolar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | pornoyu | pornoları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | pornoya | pornolara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | pornoda | pornolarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genitive | pornonun | pornoların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Upper Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpor.no]
Preposition
porno (inv)
- (when) compared to; as distinct from
- 1966, Translation of the New Testament, Epistle to Romans, ch. 8, v. 18
- Mam za to, zo njejsu ćerpjenja tutoho časa ničo porno přichodnej krasnosći, kotraž so nad nami zjewi.
- 1966, Translation of the New Testament, Epistle to Romans, ch. 8, v. 18
- unlike, contrary to
- against
- along with