seno
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech sěno, from Proto-Slavic *sěno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛno]
- Rhymes: -ɛno
- Hyphenation: se‧no
Declension
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin sinus (“fold, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Romansch sain, Romanian sân, Spanish seno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.no/
- Rhymes: -eno
- Hyphenation: sé‧no
Noun
seno m (plural seni)
- breast
- (by extension) bosom, heart, breast
- 1787, Lorenzo Da Ponte (lyrics), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), “Don Giovanni”, act 1, scene 1:
- L'assassino m'ha ferito, / e dal seno palpitante / sento l’anima partir
- The assassin has wounded me! / And from my heaving breast / I see my soul escaping
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- (literary) womb
- (geography) cove, inlet
- (anatomy) sinus
- (trigonometry) sine
Synonyms
- (breast): petto
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.noː/, [ˈs̠eːnoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.no/, [ˈsɛːno]
Latvian
Adjective
seno
- vocative singular masculine form of senais
- accusative singular masculine form of senais
- instrumental singular masculine form of senais
- genitive plural masculine form of senais
- vocative singular feminine form of senais
- accusative singular feminine form of senais
- instrumental singular feminine form of senais
- genitive plural feminine form of senais
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsʲæːno]
Lower Sorbian

Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sěno. Cognate with Upper Sorbian syno, Polish siano, Czech seno, Russian се́но (séno), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛnɔ/
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁄 (Brahmi script)
- सेनो (Devanagari script)
- সেনো (Bengali script)
- සෙනො (Sinhalese script)
- သေနော or သေၼေႃ (Burmese script)
- เสโน (Thai script)
- ᩈᩮᨶᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
- ເສໂນ (Lao script)
- សេនោ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄬𑄚𑄮 (Chakma script)
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sinus (“sine”), from Latin sinus (“curve, breast”).[1] Doublet of seio and sino.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsẽ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈse.no/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈse.nu/
- Homophone: ceno
- Hyphenation: se‧no
Derived terms
- senoide
- cosseno
Related terms
References
- “seno” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian): sijȇno
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sěno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sêːno/
- Hyphenation: se‧no
Declension
References
- “seno” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛnɔ/
Noun
seno n (genitive singular sena, nominative plural sená, genitive plural sien, declension pattern of mesto)
Declension
Further reading
- seno in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sěno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnóː/
Inflection
Neuter, hard | ||
---|---|---|
nominative | seno | |
genitive | sena | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
seno | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
senu | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
senom |
Further reading
- “seno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish seno, from Latin sinus, from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseno/ [ˈse.no]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -eno
- Syllabification: se‧no
Noun
seno m (plural senos)
Further reading
- “seno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Trinitario
References
- Swintha Danielsen, Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages, page 4, 2011