sino

• Hyphenation: si‧no
• IPA^(key): /ˈsino/ [ˈs̪i.n̪o]

sino

1. mature coconut fruit

From Latin sinus (“bosom; pocket, lap”). Compare Italian seno, French sein. Doublet of sinuso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsino/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: si‧no

sino (accusative singular sinon, plural sinoj, accusative plural sinojn)

1. lap (upper legs of a seated person)

   La knabo sidis sur la sino de sia avino.

   The boy sat on his grandmother's lap.

• sinokomputilo (“laptop”)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sino (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin signum (“bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Portuguese sino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.no̝/

sino m (plural sinos)

1. bell

   Synonym: campá

2. sign

   Synonyms: signo, sinal

3. destiny, fate

   Synonym: destino

• Monte do Sino
• sineiro
• Sineiro
• Sino

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sino”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sino”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sino”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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siṇo

1. short grass

Even o-stem, ṇ-n gradation
Nominative	siṇo
Genitive	sino
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	siṇo	sinoh
Accusative	sino	sinoid
Genitive	sino	sinoi
Illative	siṇon	sinoid
Locative	siinoost	sinoin
Comitative	sinoin	sinoiguin
Abessive	sinottáá	sinoittáá
Essive	sinnoon
Partitive	sinnood
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: sì‧no

sino

1. alternative form of fino

• Niso, Sion, niso, soni

• sinón

Inherited from Old Spanish sinon.

sino (Hebrew spelling סינו)^[1]

1. but (rather)
   • 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎^[2], Isis, →ISBN, page 361:

     ‘Yo no so hombre, sino mujer djudia i ainda esto muchacha i atada kon un mansevo.’

     I am no man, but rather a Jewess and I remain a maiden committed with a lad.’

2. if not; otherwise
   • 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎^[3], Isis, →ISBN, page 81:

     “Senior,” disho Yaakov, “kere merkar la lolana? Sino la vendere a alungo de otro.”

     ‘Sir,’ said Jacob, ‘want to buy the dress? Otherwise I shall sell it to somebody else.’

From Proto-Italic *sinō, from Proto-Indo-European *tḱi-né-ti, denominative present of the root *tḱey- (“to build, cultivate”).^[1]

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

sinō (present infinitive sinere, perfect active sīvī or siī, supine situm); third conjugation

1. to let; to permit; to allow

   Synonyms: remittō, permittō, immittō, concēdō, cēdō, condōnō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.17–18:

     hoc rēgnum dea gentibus esse –
     sī quā fāta sinant – iam tum tenditque fovetque.

     The goddess already aims and fondly hopes that this kingdom – if in any way the fates were to allow it – become [sovereign] over nations.

2. to put; to lay; to set down

   Synonyms: collocō, impōnō, pōnō, cōnstituō, statuō, fīgō, sistō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• dēsinō
• pōnō
• situs

• “sino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “site”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sinaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *siNaʀ.

sino (mutated form zino)

1. sunshine

• mosino

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 187.

From Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Old Occitan senh.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.no/

sino m (plural sinos)

1. bell
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 66 (facsimile):

     ſan pedro ſino tagia

     Saint Peter rang the bell

• campãa

• Galician: sino
• Portuguese: sino (see there for further descendants)

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sino

1. forehead^[1]

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• Rhymes: -inu
• Hyphenation: si‧no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

Cognate with Galician sino, Catalan seny and Romansh zain. Also related to French tocsin and English tocsin (both ultimately from Old Occitan senh (“bell”)). Doublet of senha, senho, and signo.

sino m (plural sinos)

1. bell (percussive instrument)
   • 1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia:

     Ó sino da minha aldeia,
     Dolente na tarde calma,
     Cada tua badalada
     Soa dentro da minha alma.

     O bell of my village,
     Doleful in the calm afternoon,
     Each of thy tollings
     Sounds inside my soul.

• Kabuverdianu: sinu
• Sinhalese: සීනුව (sīnuwa)
• Tetum: sinu

From Latin sinus. Doublet of seio and seno.

sino m (plural sinos)

1. (archaic) gulf

   Synonyms: enseada, golfo

• seio
• seno

• “sino”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sino”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

sino (Cyrillic spelling сино)

1. vocative singular of sina

• IPA^(key): /ˈsino/ [ˈsi.no]

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: si‧no

Borrowed from Latin signum. Doublet of signo, cf. also seña. Cognate with English sign.

sino m (plural sinos)

1. destiny, fate, lot

   Synonyms: hado, destino, azar, fario

Univerbation of si (“if”) +‎ no (“not”). Compare Portuguese senão, French sinon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsino/ [ˈsi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: si‧no

sino

1. but (rather) (after a negative clause)

   No es cantante, sino actor. ― He is not a singer, but an actor.

   • 2025 November 3, Hugo Maguey, “Uzbekistán: el corazón del mundo vuelve a latir [Uzbekistan: the heart of the world beats again]”, in El Sol de México‎^[4]:

     Por primera vez en más de 40 años, la Conferencia General de la UNESCO no se celebra en París, sino aquí, en Samarcanda, símbolo de los cruces de civilizaciones.

     For the first time in 40 years, the UNESCO General Conference is not held in Paris, but here, in Samarkand, symbol of the crossroads of civilizations.

2. except, apart from

   Synonyms: excepto, menos, salvo

   Todos fueron al parque, sino María. ― Everyone went to the park, except Maria.

3. only, solely (in a negative clause)

   No eres sino un alumno. ― You are solely a student.

• “sino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• cno — text messaging

From Proto-Philippine *si-nu. By surface analysis, si +‎ ano. Compare Brooke's Point Palawano sinu, Ilocano sino, Waray-Waray hin-o, and Yami sino. See also Malay si + Malay anu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsino/ [ˈsiː.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: si‧no

sino (plural sino-sino, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈᜓ)

1. (interrogative) who

• “sino”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• nosi, inso, Ison

Compare Brooke's Point Palawano sinu, Ilocano sino, Waray-Waray hin-o, and Tagalog sino.

sino

1. (interrogative) who

sino

1. dog