-ono

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ono"

Esperanto

Etymology

Unclear; perhaps the ending of Italian frazione and German Fraktion, or related to the suffix of Polish poł-owina and Russian пол-овина (pol-ovina) 'half' (and similar fractions).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈono/
  • Rhymes: -ono
  • Syllabification: o‧no

Suffix

-ono

  1. Marks fractions.
    kvar (four) + ‎-ono → ‎kvarono (a quarter, a fourth)
    du (two) + ‎-ono → ‎duono (a half)
  2. (organic chemistry) -one
  3. (physics) -on

See also

Esperanto terms suffixed with -ono

Italian

Suffix

-ono

  1. used with a stem to form the third-person plural present of regular -ere verbs and those -ire verbs that don't take -isc-.