sinó

See also: sino, sino-, si no, sin-o, s-ino, Sino-, and S-ino

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /siˈno/

Conjunction

sinó

but (on the contrary)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English snow.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /si.ˈnɔ/

Noun

sinó m (uncountable)

(US) snow
- Manuel Cardoso, Nesta triste ocasião, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 31:
  Muitas vezes me levanto / Em terrado no sino
  Many times I get up / Buried in the snow
- 1978, Jerónimo Golçalves Trigueiro, Os Dois Aventureiros, published in 1982, Eduardo Mayone Dias, Cantares de Além-Mar, page 105:
  O estado de Nova Yorque, / Tanta água que chovia; / No estado de Massachusetts / Só «sinó» é que caía.
  [In] the state of New York, / So much water rained; / In the state of Massachusetts / Only snow had been falling.
- 2000, Onésimo Teotónio Almeida, (Sapa)teia americana: (contos), Edições Salamandra, page 174:
  […] , mas disse-me a Maria do Palinhas que o homem ouviu dizer no chápe que aquele sinó é dado cair nas montanhas, […]
  […] , but Maria from Palinhas told me that she heard a man say in the factory that that snow tends to fall in the mountains, […]

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