-ano

Likely from Latin -ānus. Compare Italian -ano, Spanish -ano, English -an, French -en, Portuguese -ão.

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.no]

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-ano

1. (nominal) inhabitant of, member of, partisan of

   ex. ‎Novjorko (“New York City”) + ‎-ano → ‎novjorkano (“New Yorker”)

• -iano

Borrowed from English -an, French -ain, Italian -ano, Portuguese -ano/Spanish -ano, all ultimately from Latin -ānus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈano/

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-ano

1. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a native, citizen or inhabitant; -an

   Synonyms: -ese, -ita

   ‎Africa (“Africa”) + ‎-ano → ‎africano (“African”)

   ‎Italia (“Italy”) + ‎-ana → ‎italiana (“Italian”)

   ‎Atlanta (“Atlanta”) + ‎-ano → ‎atlantano (“Atlantan”)

2. forms nouns from nouns, denoting a language; -an

   Synonym: -ese

   ‎Italia (“Italy”) + ‎-ano → ‎italiano (“Italian”)

   ‎Samoa (“Samoa”) + ‎-ano → ‎samoano (“Samoan”)

3. forms nouns from nouns, denoting an adherent or follower; -an

   Synonyms: -ista, -ita

   ‎Mohammed (“Mohammed”) + ‎-ano → ‎mohammedano (“Mohammedan”)

   ‎Wesley (“Wesley”) + ‎-ana → ‎wesleyana (“Wesleyan”)

• This suffix takes the form -iano when place names do not end in o or a or when the root is a personal name.
• When indicating an inhabitant or adherent, this suffix indicates a male. The coordinate female suffix is -ana or -iana (see previous point).
• The corresponding adjectival suffix is -an.

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

From Latin -ant.

• IPA^(key): /a.no/ (stress falls on the preceding syllable)
• Hyphenation: -a‧no

-ano (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the third-person plural present tense of regular -are verbs
2. used with a stem to form the third-person plural present subjunctive of regular -ere and -ire verbs
3. used with a stem to form the third-person imperative of regular -ere and those -ire verbs that do not take -isc

From Latin -ānus (adjectival derivational suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: -à‧no

-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -ani, feminine plural -ane) -ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ani, feminine -ana)

1. (productive, relational) forms adjectives from locations, meaning “of, from or related to the location”

   ‎America (“America”) + ‎-ano → ‎americano (“American”)

   ‎Italia (“Italy”) + ‎-ano → ‎italiano (“Italian”)

2. (productive) forms nouns from locations, meaning “someone from the location”

   ‎America (“America”) + ‎-ano → ‎americano (“American”)

   ‎Italia (“Italy”) + ‎-ano → ‎italiano (“Italian”)

• -iano

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: -à‧no

-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ani)

1. (organic chemistry) -ane (in the names of hydrocarbons)

• -ona, noa

-ānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of -ānus

• -iano

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

Learned borrowing from Latin -ānus, influenced by Spanish -ano. Doublet of -ão.

-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -anos, feminine plural -anas)

1. forms adjectives, from nouns, meaning “of, from or related to the suffixed noun”; -an

   ‎América (“America”) + ‎-ano → ‎americano (“American (of or relating to America)”)

-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos, feminine -ana, feminine plural -anas)

1. forms nouns, from a placename, denoting someone from that place; -an

   ‎América (“America”) + ‎-ano → ‎americano (“American (someone from America)”)

   Synonyms: -ão, -eiro, -ense, -ês

2. forms nouns, from a placename, denoting the main or traditional language spoken in that place; -an

   ‎Geórgia (“Georgia (country)”) + ‎-ano → ‎georgiano (“Georgian (language)”)

3. forms nouns, from a person’s name, denoting someone who believes in the religion, philosophy or theory created by that person

   Immanuel Kant + -ano → kantiano (“Kantian”)

4. forms nouns, from the name of a star sign, denoting someone born under that star sign

   ‎Aquário (“Aquarius”) + ‎-ano → ‎aquariano (“Aquarian”)

• -ão

Borrowed from French -ane or English -ane.

-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos)

1. (organic chemistry) forms the names of saturated hydrocarbons

Inherited from Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun.

• -eno, -eño

-ano (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, masculine plural -anos, feminine plural -anas)

1. coming from, related to, or like

   ‎California (“California”) + ‎-ano → ‎californiano (“Californian”)

-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos, feminine -ana, feminine plural -anas)

1. one from, belonging to, relating to, made from, or like

   ‎California (“California”) + ‎-ano → ‎californiano (“Californian”)

• Forms adjectives from nouns, but the adjectives in turn often come to be used as nouns.

  ‎Ucrania (“Ukraine”) + ‎-ano → ‎ucraniano (“Ukrainian”, adjective) → ‎ucraniano (“Ukrainian”, noun)

• -eño, -és, -ense

-ano m (noun-forming suffix, plural -anos)

1. (organic chemistry) -ane (in the names of hydrocarbons)

   metano ― methane

• (chemistry): -eno, -ino

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

Borrowed from Spanish -ano.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈano/ [ˈa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: -a‧no

-ano (noun-forming suffix, adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ana, Baybayin spelling ◌ᜈᜓ)

1. Demonym suffix, forms nouns and adjectives indicating or describing that one comes from, belongs to, is related to, or is like those from what the root specifies

   ‎probinsiya (“province”) + ‎-ano → ‎probinsiyano (“provincial”)

   ‎Korea (“Korea”) + ‎-ano → ‎Koreano (“Korean”)

   ‎Amerika (“America”) + ‎-ano → ‎Amerikano (“American”)

   ‎Italya (“Italy”) + ‎-ano → ‎Italyano (“Italian”)

   ‎Mehiko (“Mexico”) + ‎-ano → ‎Mehikano (“Mexican”)

   ‎Cebu (“Cebu”) + ‎-ano → ‎Cebuano (“person from Cebu”)

   ‎Bohol (“Bohol”) + ‎-ano → ‎Boholano (“person from Bohol”)

   ‎Bikol (“Bicol”) + ‎-ano → ‎Bikolano (“person from Bikol region”)

   ‎Iloko (“Ilocos language”) + ‎-ano → ‎Ilokano (“person from Ilocos region”)

• Forms demonym nouns, which can also be used as adjectives.

• -enyo
• -ense
• taga-

• “-ano”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• -no, -ño (allomorphs)

• IPA^(key): [-ano]

-ano

1. Forms nouns from many postpositions and some (chiefly spatial) adverbs, typically with the sense of ‘one that (is (at)) …’, ‘one that has the quality of …’.

When attaching to a final vowel e, this suffix takes the form -ano, with the first vowel replacing the e; when attaching to i, it takes the form -ño; in all other circumstances it takes the form -no.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-no”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 140
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 300, 302