seno

Inherited from Old Czech sěno, from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛno]

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• Rhymes: -ɛno
• Hyphenation: se‧no

seno n

1. hay

   sušit seno ― to make hay

   hledat jehlu v kupce sena ― to look for a needle in a haystack

• “seno”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “seno”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “seno”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Inherited from Latin sinus (“fold, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Romansch sain, Romanian sân, Spanish seno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.no/
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: sé‧no

seno m (plural seni)

1. breast
2. (by extension) bosom, heart, breast
   • 1787, “Don Giovanni”, Lorenzo Da Ponte (lyrics), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music), 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

3. (literary) womb
4. (geography) cove, inlet
5. (anatomy) sinus
6. (trigonometry) sine

• (breast): petto

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

sēnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sēnus

seno

1. inflection of sens:
   1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
   2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲæːno]

sẽno m

1. genitive masculine singular of senas

From Proto-Slavic *sěno. Cognate with Upper Sorbian syno, Polish siano, Czech seno, Russian се́но (séno), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɔ/

seno n (diminutive senko)

1. hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “seno”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “seno”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

seno

1. nominative singular of sena (“hawk”)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sinus (“sine”), from Latin sinus (“curve, breast”).^[1] Doublet of seio and sino.

• Homophone: ceno
• Hyphenation: se‧no

seno m (plural senos)

1. (trigonometry) sine

• senoide
• cosseno

• seio

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

• sijȇno (Ijekavian)

• IPA^(key): /sêːno/
• Hyphenation: se‧no

sȇno n (Cyrillic spelling се̑но)

1. hay

• “seno”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seno (Cyrillic spelling сено)

1. vocative singular of sena

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsenɔ]

seno n

1. hay

• senný
• sienko, sience

• “seno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *sěno, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śáina, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“pale, faint”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛnóː/
• Rhymes: -oː
• Hyphenation: se‧no

senọ̑ n

1. hay of the first mowing in a year

   Synonyms: košenina, mrva, arnica, jarnica, košeničica, vrnica

2. (by extension, colloquial) any hay

First neuter declension (hard o-stem) , long mixed accent (singularia tantum)
nom. sing.	senọ̑
gen. sing.	senȃ
	singular
nominative imenovȃlnik	senọ̑
genitive rodȋlnik	senȃ
dative dajȃlnik	sẹ̑nu, sẹ̑ni
accusative tožȋlnik	senọ̑
locative mẹ̑stnik	sẹ̑nu, sẹ̑ni
instrumental orọ̑dnik	sẹ̑nom
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)	senọ̑

• trava (“grass”)
• otava
• otavič
• slama

• “seno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “seno”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From nwa.

seno class 7/8 (plural dino)

1. beverage

Inherited from Old Spanish seno, from Latin sinus, from Proto-Indo-European *sinos. Compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseno/ [ˈse.no]

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• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: se‧no

seno m (plural senos)

1. (anatomy) breast
2. (anatomy) sinus
3. (mathematics) sine
4. (geography) sound (inlet)
5. (nautical) trough

• “seno”, 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

• no sé
• soné
• soñé

seno

1. woman

• Swintha Danielsen, Evaluating historical data (wordlists) in the case of Bolivian extinct languages, page 4, 2011