leno

From French linon (“lawn (linen fabric)”), from lin (“linen; flax”) + -on.^[1]

leno

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

• (type of weave): gauze weave, leno weave

• leno weave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• lone, Noël, Noel, neol., Léon, enol, one L, Nole, noël, Leon, nole, noel, NOEL, elon, Elno, Elon, León

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɔ
• Syllabification: le‧no

leno (not comparable)

1. only, merely, solely

   Synonyms: le, blós

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tylko”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “leno”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Unknown; likely a foreign word.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.no]

lēnō m (genitive lēnōnis); third declension

1. pimp, procurer
   • c. 190 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

Third-declension noun.

• Italian: lenone
• Spanish: lenón

lēnō (present infinitive lēnāre, supine lēnātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem

1. to pimp, to pander

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “leno”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 351
• “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^[2], 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʎeno(u)/

leno

1. (Asturias) alternative form of xeno

• Asturian: enllenu, llenu, llen
• Leonese: llenu

• lijȇno (Ijekavian)

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

lȇno (Cyrillic spelling ле̑но)

1. lazily

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

leno (Cyrillic spelling лено)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of len