Fromnano-, fromLatinnānus, fromAncient Greekνᾶνος(nânos).

• IPA^(key):/ˈnænəʊ/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ænəʊ

nano (countable anduncountable,pluralnanos)

1. (uncountable, oftenattributive)Clipping ofnanotechnology.
   • 2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, inThe International Herald Tribune‎^[1],→ISSN:

     The Czech government is actively supporting thenano industry through the participation of ministries and universities in research and development programs.

2. (countable,science fiction) Ananotechnological device, such as a computer
3. (countable,science fiction) Ananoscale device, such as a robot
4. (countable)Clipping ofnanosecond.
5. (countable)Clipping ofnanometre.

nano (notcomparable)

1. Clipping ofnanoscale.
2. Clipping ofnanotechnological.

• non-nano

• (nanotechnology): OED 2003

• 'onna,Anon,Nona,OANN,Onan,anon,anon.,nona-,onna

• IPA^(key):/ˈnano/[ˈna.no]
• Rhymes:-ano
• Syllabification:na‧no

nano

1. neutersingular ofnanu

Inherited fromProto-Basque, fromLatinnānus(“dwarf”), fromAncient Greekνᾶνος(nânos,“dwarf”).

• IPA^(key):/nano/[na.no]
• Rhymes:-ano,-o
• Hyphenation:na‧no

nano (comparativenanoago,superlativenanoen,excessivenanoegi)

1. dwarf,miniature,minuscule

   Synonym:txatxar

nano inan oranim

1. (animate)dwarf,midget

   Synonym:ipotx

2. (inanimate,astronomy)dwarf star

• “nano”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “nano”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary],Euskaltzaindia,1987–2005

Variant ofnan.

• IPA^(key):(Central)[ˈna.nu]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic,Valencia)[ˈna.no]

nano m (pluralnanos,femininenana)

1. (colloquial)Synonym ofnen(“boy”)
   • 2019 October 16, Manuel Jabois, “Barcelona no crema bé, viatge al final de la nit”, inEl País‎^[2]:

     Un grup de manifestants, liderat pernanos emboçats i amb el cap cobert per caputxes de dessuadora fosca i, a 50 metres, una filera de Mossos quiets, parapetats en escuts.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

• “nano” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nano”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.

FromLatinnānus.

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key):/ˈnano/
• Rhymes:-ano
• Hyphenation: na‧no

nano (accusative singularnanon,pluralnanoj,accusative pluralnanojn)

1. dwarf,pygmy
2. (astronomy)dwarf star(star of relatively small size)

nano

1. (Pular,Pulaar)left
2. (Pular)north

   Synonym:(Pulaar)rewo

nano

1. (Pular)left

   koyngalnanal ngal ―theleft leg

• Oumar Bah,Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
• M. Niang,Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

FromLatinnānus, fromAncient Greekνᾶνος(nânos).

• IPA^(key):/ˈna.no/
• Rhymes:-ano
• Hyphenation:nà‧no

• Audio:

  (file)

nano (femininenana,masculine pluralnani,feminine pluralnane)

1. dwarfish

nano m (pluralnani,femininenana)

1. dwarf,midget
2. (mythology) dwarf
3. (informal, oftenoffensive)shorty (etc.)

• nanerottolo

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

• Nona,anno,nona,ànno

(Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈnaː.noː/,[ˈnäːnoː]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈna.no/,[ˈnäːno]

nānō

1. dative/ablativesingular ofnānus

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*anu, fromProto-Austronesian*(na-)nu.

nano

1. (interrogative)what

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

nano

1. breast

Cognates includeMinica Huitotonano andNüpode Huitotonano.

• IPA^(key):[ˈnanɔ]
• Hyphenation:na‧no

nano

1. first
   • 2008 [1978],Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition,Mateo 1:1, page 5:

     Jesucristo rafuena omoɨmo cue lloiacana jira, naimɨe comɨnɨnanano lloitɨcue.

     Because of my wanting to tell you of the story of Jesus Christ, I willfirst tell of his people.

• Shirley Burtch (1983)Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page188
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017)A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page330

• Rhymes:(Portugal)-ɐnu,(Brazil)-ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation:na‧no

nano

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofnanar

Clipping ofenano(“dwarf”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈnano/[ˈna.no]
• Rhymes:-ano
• Syllabification:na‧no

nano m (pluralnanos)

1. man,dude

nano

1. again,once more