leno

See also: Appendix:Variations of "leno"

English

Basic leno weave

Woven leno mesh bag for shellfish, firewood and produce

Etymology

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

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, leno weave

Translations

type of weave

• Finnish: lintuniisisidos

Further reading

• leno weave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Kashubian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

leno (not comparable)

1. only, merely, solely

   Synonyms: le, blós

Further reading

• 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

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; likely a foreign word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈleː.noː/, [ˈɫ̪eːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.no/, [ˈlɛːno]

Noun

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.

     Ah there, pimp, I want you! - And I want you.

2. seducer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lēnō	lēnōnēs
genitive	lēnōnis	lēnōnum
dative	lēnōnī	lēnōnibus
accusative	lēnōnem	lēnōnēs
ablative	lēnōne	lēnōnibus
vocative	lēnō	lēnōnēs

Derived terms

• lēna
• lēnō
• lēnōcināmentum
• lēnōcinium
• lēnōcinor
• lēnōnicē
• lēnōnius
• lēnullus
• lēnunculus

 

Descendants

• Italian: lenone
• Spanish: lenón

Verb

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

1. to pimp, to pander

Conjugation

Conjugation of lēnō (first conjugation, no perfect stem)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	lēnō	lēnās	lēnat	lēnāmus	lēnātis	lēnant
	imperfect	lēnābam	lēnābās	lēnābat	lēnābāmus	lēnābātis	lēnābant
	future	lēnābō	lēnābis	lēnābit	lēnābimus	lēnābitis	lēnābunt
passive	present	lēnor	lēnāris, lēnāre	lēnātur	lēnāmur	lēnāminī	lēnantur
	imperfect	lēnābar	lēnābāris, lēnābāre	lēnābātur	lēnābāmur	lēnābāminī	lēnābantur
	future	lēnābor	lēnāberis, lēnābere	lēnābitur	lēnābimur	lēnābiminī	lēnābuntur
	perfect	lēnātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	lēnātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	lēnātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	lēnem	lēnēs	lēnet	lēnēmus	lēnētis	lēnent
	imperfect	lēnārem	lēnārēs	lēnāret	lēnārēmus	lēnārētis	lēnārent
passive	present	lēner	lēnēris, lēnēre	lēnētur	lēnēmur	lēnēminī	lēnentur
	imperfect	lēnārer	lēnārēris, lēnārēre	lēnārētur	lēnārēmur	lēnārēminī	lēnārentur
	perfect	lēnātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	lēnātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	lēnā	—	—	lēnāte	—
	future	—	lēnātō	lēnātō	—	lēnātōte	lēnantō
passive	present	—	lēnāre	—	—	lēnāminī	—
	future	—	lēnātor	lēnātor	—	—	lēnantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		lēnāre	—	lēnātūrum esse	lēnārī	lēnātum esse	lēnātum īrī
participles		lēnāns	—	lēnātūrus	—	lēnātus	lēnandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		lēnandī	lēnandō	lēnandum	lēnandō	lēnātum	lēnātū

References

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “leno”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[2] (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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “leno”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], 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

Old Leonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʎeno(u)/

Adjective

leno

1. (Asturias) Alternative form of xeno

Descendants

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lijȇno (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

lȇno (Cyrillic spelling ле̑но)

1. lazily

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

leno

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of len