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3 letters words from 'nos'

NOS 3ONS 3
SON 3 

2 letters words from 'nos'

NO 2ON 2
OS 2SO 2

All 3 letters words made out of nos

nos ons nso sno osn son

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Definitions and meaning of nos

nos

Etymology 1

no +‎ -s

Alternative forms

  • noes

Noun

nos

  1. plural of no

Etymology 2

no. +‎ -s

Noun

nos

  1. Alternative form of nos. Abbreviation of numbers.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

Noun

nos (countable and uncountable, plural noses)

  1. (countable) Acronym of nitrous oxide system.
    Coordinate term: NOx
  2. (uncountable) Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
    Synonym: nox

Anagrams

  • -son, NSO, ONS, SON, Son, ons, son

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin nos. Akin to Spanish nos and French nous.

Pronoun

nos

  1. us (first-person plural direct pronoun)
  2. (to) us (first-person plural indirect pronoun)

Synonyms

  • mos

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • mos (pronoun)
  • ños (pronoun)

Etymology 1

From Latin nōs (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

  1. us (dative and accusative of nosotros/nós)

Etymology 2

From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article los (“the”).

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg nel, feminine sg na, neuter sg no, feminine plural nes)

  1. in the

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nōs (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *nōs.

Pronoun

nos (enclitic, contracted 'ns, proclitic ens)

  1. us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Usage notes

  • -nos is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with consonant or ⟨u⟩.

Related terms

  • nosaltres

Further reading

  • “nos” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • “nos” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “nos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cornish

Etymology 1

Uncertain; either inherited from Proto-Celtic *noxs or borrowed from Latin nox. In either case, cognate with Breton noz, Welsh nos and Gaulish nox, all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nos f (plural nosow)

  1. night

Etymology 2

From Latin nota. Cognate with Welsh nod, Irish nod, nóta and English note. Doublet of noten.

Noun

nos m (plural nosow)

  1. mark
  2. token

References

  • nos in the Gerlyver Kernewek Cornish Dictionary

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnos]
  • Hyphenation: nos
  • Rhymes: -os

Etymology 1

From Old Czech nos, from Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Noun

nos m inan

  1. (anatomy) nose
Declension
Synonyms
  • frňák, čenich, raťafák
Derived terms
  • nosáč
  • nosní

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nos

  1. second-person singular imperative of nosit

Further reading

  • nos in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • nos in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin nōs (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

  1. we (first person plural nominative personal pronoun; the speakers/writers)
  2. us (first person plural objective personal pronoun)

French

Etymology

From Old French noz, probably from Latin nostros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /no/
  • Rhymes: -o

Determiner

nos pl

  1. plural of notre

Related terms

1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
2 Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

  • “nos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • son

Galician

Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article os (“the”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʊs/

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg no, feminine sg na, feminine plural nas)

  1. in the

Etymology 2

From a mutation of os.

Pronoun

nos m (accusative)

  1. Alternative form of os (“them”, masculine plural)
Usage notes

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

See also
  • Appendix:Galician pronouns
  • los
  • os
  • nós

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

nos

  1. inflection of nós:
    1. accusative/dative
    2. reflexive

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese nós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

  1. we, first person plural.

Hungarian

Etymology

no (interjection) +‎ s (“and”, conjunction)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnoʃ]
  • Hyphenation: nos
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Interjection

nos

  1. well

References

Further reading

  • nos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Interlingua

Pronoun

nos

  1. we
  2. us

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Noun

nos m

  1. (anatomy) nose

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nōs, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /noːs/, [noːs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nos/, [nɔs]

Pronoun

nōs

  1. nominative/accusative plural of ego: we, us

Usage notes

When used in the plural genitive, nostrī is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Nostrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of us).

Derived terms

  • nōbīscum

Descendants

See also

1st and 2nd person personal pronouns declension together with the possessive and reflexive pronouns.
is, ea, id (“he, she, it”) is not included here.

References

  • nos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lombard

Alternative forms

  • nus (Modern orthography)

Etymology

From Latin nucem, accusative singular of nux (“nut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

Pronunciation

  • (Milan) IPA(key): /nuːs/

Noun

nos f (invariable) (Classical Milanese orthography)

  1. walnut (fruit and tree)
  2. (botany) nut

References

  • Francesco Cherubini, Vocabolario milanese-italiano, Volume 3, 1843, p. 179

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔs/

Noun

nos m (diminutive nosk)

  1. nose

Declension

Middle English

Noun

nos (plural nosses)

  1. Alternative form of nose

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse nǫs, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Noun

nos f or m (definite singular nosa or nosen, indefinite plural noser, definite plural nosene)

  1. (dialectal) nose
  2. (dialectal) steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

  • (nose): nese

References

  • “nos” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “nos” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse nǫs, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Noun

nos f (definite singular nosa, indefinite plural naser, definite plural nasene)

  1. nose
  2. steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

  • (nose): nase

References

  • “nos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • sno, son

Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nus/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin nōs.

Pronoun

nos

  1. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
  2. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan nos, nous, nou, from Latin nōdus. Compare Catalan nus, French nœud, Italian nodo.

Noun

nos m (plural noses)

  1. knot

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nos/

Noun

nos m

  1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: nos

Further reading

  • “nos”, in Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online]‎[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2006–2020

Old French

Alternative forms

  • nous (first-person plural subject pronoun)
  • nus (first-person plural subject pronoun)

Etymology

From Latin nōs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nus/

Pronoun

nos

  1. we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
  2. our (masculine and feminine plural possessive pronoun)
  3. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
  4. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Descendants

  • Middle French: nous
    • French: nous

Old Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin nōs, in the nominative case, and accusative nōs stressed.

Pronoun

nos

  1. nominative of nos: we
  2. prepositional of nos: us

Descendants

  • Spanish: nos (archaic or dialectal)
  • Spanish: nosotros

Etymology 2

From Latin nōs, in the accusative case unstressed, and dative nōbīs.

Pronoun

nos

  1. accusative of nos: us
  2. dative of nos: to us, for us

Descendants

  • Spanish: nos

Etymology 3

Contraction of no (“not”) and se (“him/her/itself, themselves”).

Contraction

nos

  1. not ... (to oneself)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese nós and Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

  1. we, first person plural.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔs/

Noun

nos m inan (diminutive nosek, augmentative nochal or nosisko)

  1. nose

Declension

Derived terms

  • (adjective) nosowy
  • (nouns) nochal, nosacz, nosal

Further reading

  • nos in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • nos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /nuʃ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /nus/
  • Hyphenation: nos

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin nōs (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *nōs.

Pronoun

nos

  1. us; objective case of nós
  2. Obsolete spelling of nós
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese nos, clipping of enos, from en (“in”) + os (“the”).

Contraction

nos

  1. Contraction of em os (“in the”).
    • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:
      [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.
      [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

nos

  2. Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong


Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin nōs, from Proto-Italic *nōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔs/

Pronoun

nos (possessive nostru)

  1. we
    Synonym: nois, nosatros
  2. us

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nôːs/

Noun

nȏs m (Cyrillic spelling но̑с)

  1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nos]

Noun

nos m

  1. nose

Further reading

  • nos in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nóːs/

Noun

nọ̑s m inan

  1. (anatomy) nose

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish nos, from accusative Latin nōs and dative Latin nōbīs, from Proto-Italic *nōs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nos/, [nos]

Pronoun

nos (object pronoun)

  1. dative of nosotros: to us, for us
  2. accusative of nosotros: us
  3. (reflexive) reflexive of nosotros: ourselves; each other
  4. (archaic, formal) first person; I (singular, cf. vos)

Derived terms

References

  • nos

See also

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse nǫs, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

Noun

nos c

  1. a nose of an animal

Declension

Related terms

  • näsa (human nose)
  • nosa
  • sötnos

Anagrams

  • -son, ons, sno, son

Volapük

Pronoun

nos

  1. nothing

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French nos, from Latin nos.

Pronoun

nos

  1. we

Related terms

  • nozôtes

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nékʷts.

Cognates include Breton noz, Cornish nos and Gaulish nox

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noːs/
  • Rhymes: -oːs

Noun

nos f (plural nosweithiau, or rarely nosau, count form noson)

  1. night

Derived terms

Related terms

Western Apache

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nòs]

Noun

nos

  1. manzanita plant

Usage notes

  • occurs only in Dilzhe’eh (Tonto) dialect

See also

  • dinos "manzanita"

Source: wiktionary.org
  • NO, a negative reply or vote.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)