lino

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪnəʊ/
• Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ

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Clipping of linoleum, probably influenced by -o (“diminutive suffix”).

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, informal) Clipping of linoleum.
   • 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:

     But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.

   • 1996 July 20, Malcolm Tippett, “Dogs ...No Way”, in aus.jokes‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The third thing was the TORN lino in the kitchen, new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of lino off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear, and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of lino to chew . We are still too scared to replace the lino as the next puppy will probably do the same .

   • 2002 October 30, Augie, “Frontline or Advantage for fleas?”, in aus.pets‎^[2] (Usenet):

     When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino. When we ripped up all the carpet and lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.

   • 2010 April 25, George W Frost, “Found this old paper under the lino of a reno”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping

• linocut

Contraction of linesman + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

1. (UK, colloquial, informal, soccer) Abbreviation of linesman.
   • 2014 October 4, MartTheTaxi, “Twitter status”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[4]:

     Lino flagged a bit late but was right

• Lion, Nilo-, Olin, lion, loin, noil

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *jínò, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ìjínò.

1. tooth

lino

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lino

1. person

• Bernard Sellato, Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest →ISBN, 1994)
• ABVD

• Hyphenation: li‧no

From Spanish lino, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom. Displaced balandan. Superseded by linen.

lino

1. (archaic) linen; thread or cloth made from flax fiber

lino

1. (obsolete) made from linen cloth or thread

Unknown.

lino

1. to rinse glasses, cups, buckets, etc.

• lininoan

Clipping of linoleum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪno]

lino n

1. linoleum

   Synonym: linoleum

From Italian lino and French lin, both from Latin līnum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlino/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: li‧no

lino (uncountable, accusative linon)

1. flax, linseed
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 21, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     La oranĝaj kaj granataj arboj estis kovritaj de floroj, kaj sur la kampoj oni semis la linon, hordeon, fabon, fazeolon, kukumojn kaj aliajn legomojn.

     The orange and pomegranate trees were covered in flowers, and on the fields, flax, barley, fava bean, wild bean, cucumber, and other legumes were sown.

• lina (“flaxen”)
• linoleo (“linseed oil”)

• “lino”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “lino”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Clipping of linoleumileikkaus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlino/, [ˈlino̞]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification^(key): li‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): li‧no

lino

1. linocut

• “lino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• ilon, loin, olin

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lino m (plural linos)

1. lino (linoleum)
2. linotype

• “lino”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: lì‧no

From Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.

lino m (plural lini)

1. flax (plant and fiber)
2. linen (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)

• lineto
• linetto
• linea
• linicolo

• lino² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin līneus (“flaxen”).

lino (feminine lina, masculine plural lini, feminine plural line)

1. (rare) of flax or linen; flaxen

• lino¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Nilo, noli

From Proto-Italic *linō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

• liniō

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

linō (present infinitive linere, perfect active lēvī, supine litum); third conjugation

1. to daub, besmear, anoint

• Italian: linire
• Occitan:
  • Auvergnat: inî
  • Gascon: liá
• Old French: liner
• Romansh: lenar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

līnō

1. dative/ablative singular of līnum

• “lino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “lĭnĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 357

Borrowed from Bangi lino.

lino

1. tooth

• IPA^(key): /ˈlino/, [ˈli.nõ]
• Hyphenation: li‧no

Proto-South Sulawesi *lino (“the physical world, the earth”).

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

1. world

   Synonym: alang

2. earth

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *lino, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *linaw (“calm, still, as the surface of water”).

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

1. windless

   Linoi ― It is windless

   Linoi tamparanga ― The sea is windless

Unknown

lino (Lontara spelling ᨒᨗᨊᨚ)

1. libido, sex drive

   Tau tena linona ― A person who has no libido (impotent man)

• A. A. Cense (2024), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[6], Brill, →DOI

lino

1. tooth

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -inɔ
• Syllabification: li‧no

lino f

1. vocative singular of lina

lino n (plural linouri)

1. alternative form of linon

Inherited from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlino/ [ˈli.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: li‧no

lino m (plural linos)

1. linen

   Synonym: lienzo

2. flax

   Synonym: filasa

   • 1774, Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, Discurso sobre el fomento de la Industria popular:

     Aunque el cáñamo es más barato, como cosa de una cuarta parte menos que el lino, este último rinde mucho mayor número de varas en la manufactura.

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• → Cebuano: lino

• “lino”, 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

From Proto-Bantu *ìjínò. Cognate with Chichewa dzino.

lino class 5 (plural meno)

1. tooth