lino

• Rhymes: -aɪnəʊ

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

lino (usually uncountable, plural linos)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial, informal) Clipping of linoleum.
   • 1996 July 20, Malcolm Tippett, “Dogs ...No Way”, in aus.jokes, 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 .

   • 2019 October 30, Augie, “Frontline or Advantage for fleas?”, in aus.pets, 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.

   • 2019 April 25, George W Frost, “Found this old paper under the lino of a reno”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules, 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. (Britain, colloquial, informal, soccer) Abbreviation of linesman.
   • 2014 October 4, MartTheTaxi, “Twitter status”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Lino flagged a bit late but was right

• Nilo-, Olin, lion, loin, noil

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 *līno-. 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 Superseded by linen.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): /lɪnɔ/

lino n

1. linoleum

• linoleum

• linoryt m
• linořez m

lino

1. linocut

• ilon, loin, olin

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.no/, [ˈl̺iːn̺o]
• Hyphenation: lì‧no

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

lino m (plural lini)

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

• lineto
• linea

From Latin līneus (“flaxen”).

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

1. (rare) of flax or linen; flaxen

• Nilo
• noli

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.noː/, [ˈlɪ.noː]

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

1. I daub, besmear, anoint

līnō

1. dative singular of līnum
2. 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲi.nɔ/

lino f

1. vocative singular of lina

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlino/

lino m (plural linos)

1. linen
2. flax

• linar
• linón

• lienzo
• línea
• liña

• “lino” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.