leno

See also: Leno, léno, leño, and lēno

English

Etymology

From Italian leno (“weak, flexible”)

Noun

leno

  1. (textiles) A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Synonyms

  • (type of weave): gauze weave

Anagrams

Kashubian

Adverb

leno

  1. only
  2. merely
  3. solely

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈleː.noː/, [ˈɫeː.noː]

Noun

lēnō m (genitive lēnōnis); third declension

  1. pimp
    • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.3.5
      Heus tu, leno, te volo. - Et ego te volo.[1]
      Ah there, pimp, I want you! - And I want you.[2]
  2. seducer
  3. vocative singular of lēnō

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative lēnō lēnōnēs
genitive lēnōnis lēnōnum
dative lēnōnī lēnōnibus
accusative lēnōnem lēnōnēs
ablative lēnōne lēnōnibus
vocative lēnō lēnōnēs

References

  • leno in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • leno in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to act the rôle of a slave, pander: agere servum, lenonem
  • leno in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leno in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lêːno/
  • Hyphenation: le‧no

Adverb

lȇno (Cyrillic spelling ле̑но)

  1. lazily
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