uno

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uno"

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English

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁óynos

Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.noʊ/, (spelling pronunciation) /ˈjuː.noʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Interjection

uno

1. (Uno) A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.

Usage notes

• One cannot make the player whose hand is going to be reduced to one card draw by saying 'uno' on the first player’s turn before they have played their card. However, the player whose turn it is can state 'uno' before playing their card (on the presumption they will be playing a card) in order to prevent other players from saying 'uno' before they do.

See also

• numero uno
• uno ab alto
• uno flatu

Aragonese

Aragonese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : uno

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

Numeral

uno

1. one

Buginese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunuq, from Proto-Austronesian *buNuq.

Verb

uno (Lontara spelling ᨕᨘᨊᨚ)

1. to kill

Central Bikol

Central Bikol numbers ^(edit)

		10[a], [b]
		1	2  → [a], [b]	10  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: saro, uno     Ordinal: inot, ika-uno, primero

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish uno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuno/ [ˈʔu.n̪o]
• Hyphenation: u‧no

Numeral

úno (Basahan spelling ᜂᜈᜓ)

1. one

   Synonym: saro

Related terms

• un
• una
• unibersidad
• uniko
• uniporme
• uniyon

Chavacano

Chavacano numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: uno, un     Ordinal: primero

Alternative forms

• un (before the noun)

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish uno (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuno/, [ˈu.no]

Numeral

uno

1. one

Usage notes

• The form un is only used before the singular noun that it modifies. In other positions, uno is used instead.

Ido

Etymology

From un (“one”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuno/

Noun

uno (plural uni)

1. (arithmetic) unit

See also

• unajo

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish uno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuno/ [ˈʔu.no]
• Hyphenation: u‧no

Numeral

úno (Kur-itan spelling ᜂᜈᜓ)

1. one

   Synonym: maysa

Italian

Italian numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: uno, un     Ordinal: primo     Ordinal abbreviation: 1º     Adverbial: una volta     Multiplier: singolo     Distributive: singolarmente     Fractional: intero
Italian Wikipedia article on 1

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus, from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.no/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uno
• Hyphenation: ù‧no

Numeral

uno (feminine una, masculine plural uni, feminine plural une)

1. one

Usage notes

• This is used by itself for counting, and before masculine singular noun beginning with an impure s, gn, pn/ps, z. Before other masculine singular nouns, un is used.

Article

uno m (plural degli)

1. an; a

Usage notes

• This is the form of un used before an impure s, gn, pn/ps, z.

Pronoun

uno (feminine una, masculine plural uni, feminine plural une)

1. somebody; someone; a person

   Sono uno a cui piace alzarsi presto.

   I’m someone who likes getting up early or I’m a person who likes getting up early.

   Ci hanno messo gli uni contro gli altri.

   They pitted us one against the other.

Related terms

• un
• un'
• una
• unico
• unire
• unità
• università
• universo

Anagrams

• ONU, Onu

Ladino

Ladino cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : uno     Ordinal : primero

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish uno, from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one, single”). Cognates include Catalan un, French un, Italian uno, Portuguese um, Romanian unu, Spanish uno, and more distantly Yiddish איין (eyn). Doublet of un.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Istanbul):

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Numeral

uno m sg (Hebrew spelling אונו, feminine una)

1. one [16th c.]
   • 2017 June 12, Amor Ayala, Los sefardíes de Bulgaria: Estudio y edición crítica de la obra «Notas istorikas» de Avraam Moshe Tadjer‎^[1], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 300:

     En kada sivdad onde avia djudyos fueron eskojidos uno u dos miembros por la munisipalita (община).

     In every city where there were Jews, one or two members were hidden by the muncipality.

Determiner

uno m sg (Hebrew spelling אונו, plural unos, feminine una, feminine plural unas)

1. one [16th c.]

   Coordinate term: un

   • 1999, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[2], numbers 59–61, page 24:

     Al echar uno ojo sovre esta kaza, despues de trenta anyos, tokar las paredes, bushkar los guezmos de ayer — me vino el deskarinyo de akeyos tiempos.

     By giving one glance at this house, after thirty years, touching the walls, seeking the smells of yesterday — I get the longing for those times.

Pronoun

uno (Hebrew spelling אונו, plural unos, feminine una, feminine plural unas)

1. one [ca. 1510]
   • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס: אגדות וסיפורי מוסר מן המסורת היהודית־ספרדית‎^[3], נור, page 59:

     Avían tres amigos: el uno era merkader, el sigundo era doktor i el tresero tinía chiflik.

     There were three friends: one a merchant, the second a physician, and the third had a farm.

   • 2009, David M. Bunis, editor, Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews‎^[4], Bialik Institute, →ISBN, page 266:

     Dos ermanos eran en Balataa; el uno se izo doktor dişçi, el otro se izo jeneralisto; duspués, s’aviya etcho doktor de bébés

     They were two brothers in Balat. The [first] one became a dentist, the other became a GP; after that he had become a pediatrician.

   • 2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 66:

     I el sol es de dos modos kontrarios uno de otro, ke la parte ke esta para la tierra es de fuego, ma la otra parte ke da para el sielo es de pedrisko, ke kon esto se konserva uno kon otro, i el envierno tiene la vanda del pedrisko para la tierra i ansi aze muncho friyo, i si no fuera ke la otra vanda es de fuego, no era posivle ke pudieran la djente sonportarlo.

     And the sun is of two phases contrary to one another: the part for the earth is fire, yet the other part for the sky is hail, one with the other is kept with this, and winter has hail’s side for the earth, making it very cold, and if it weren’t for the other side, the fiery one, it would not be possible that people could bear it.

Derived terms

• kada uno

Related terms

• unidad
• uniko
• union
• unir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

uno (Hebrew spelling אונו)

1. first-person singular present indicative of unir

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.no]

Adjective

ūnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ūnus

Numeral

ūnō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ūnus

Article

ūnō

1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of ūnus

References

• “uno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈunə/

Numeral

uno (feminine una)

1. one

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 284: “uno; due” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• huno, un

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one, single”). Cognates include Ancient Greek οἶος (oîos), Old French un, & Old Galician-Portuguese ũu.

Numeral

uno

1. one (1)

Pronoun

uno (plural unos, feminine una, feminine plural unas)

1. one
   • 1350, anonymous author, edited by María Teresa Herrera and María Nieves Sánchez, Traducción de la "Historia de Jerusalem abreviada" de Jacobo de Vitriaco, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, published 2000:

     La ximia, si pariere dos fijos, al uno aborreçe & al otro quiere bien

     The female monkey, if it brought forth two children, one is abandoned and the other is loved.

Descendants

• Ladino: uno, אונו
• Spanish: uno

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “uno”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 514

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈũ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈũ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈu.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈu.nu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: u‧no
• Homophone: huno

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Italic *oinos

Old Latin oinos

Latin ūnuslbor.

Portuguese uno

Learned borrowing from Latin ūnus. Doublet of um.

Adjective

uno (feminine una, masculine plural unos, feminine plural unas)

1. (poetic, literary) only; singular (alone in a category)

   Synonyms: só, único, singular

2. (poetic) indivisible (unable to be divided)

   Synonyms: inseparável, indivisível, íntegro

Related terms

• um

Etymology 2

Noun

uno m (uncountable)

1. (card games) Uno (a card game played with special cards)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

uno

1. first-person singular present indicative of unir
2. first-person singular present indicative of unar

Further reading

• “uno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “uno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: uno     Apocopated cardinal: un     Ordinal: primero     Apocopated ordinal: primer     Ordinal abbreviation: 1.º     Multiplier: simple     Distributive: sendos
Spanish Wikipedia article on 1

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish uno, from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one, single”). Cognates include Ancient Greek οἶος (oîos), French un, & Russian один (odin). Doublet of un.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuno/ [ˈu.no]

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Chile):

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• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: u‧no
• Homophone: huno

Numeral

uno m (feminine una, masculine before a noun un)

1. one
   • 2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     Comprar un celular no es fácil, al menos considerando que lo ideal es comprar el mejor para cada uno de nosotros porque no todos tenemos las mismas necesidades, ni le damos el mismo uso, ni podemos pagar el mismo precio, ni tenemos las mismas preferencias. Sin embargo, aquí recopilo los mejores celulares Android de 2021, teniendo en cuenta estos aspectos para ayudarte a determinar cuál podría ser mejor opción para ti.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• cada uno
• el uno al otro
• Fórmula Uno
• número uno
• todos y cada uno
• una, dole, tele, catole
• uno que otro
• uno tras uno

Determiner

uno m sg (plural unos, feminine una, feminine plural unas)

1. one

Related terms

• único
• unidad
• unión
• unir

Pronoun

uno (plural unos, feminine una, feminine plural unas)

1. one

   Todos para uno, uno para todos. ― All for one [and] one for all.

Derived terms

• uno mismo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

uno

1. first-person singular present indicative of unir

Further reading

• “uno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• ONU

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: isa     Spanish cardinal: uno     Ordinal: una, pang-una, ikaisa     Spanish ordinal: primero, primera     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1, pang-1     Adverbial: minsan, makaisa     Multiplier: isang ibayo     Distributive: tig-isa, isahan, isa-isa     Restrictive: iisa     Fractional: buo
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 1

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish uno, from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔuno/ [ˈʔuː.n̪o]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: u‧no

Numeral

uno (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜈᜓ)

1. one

   Synonym: isa

Related terms

• a-onse
• a-uno
• alas-onse
• beynte uno
• Estados Unidos
• kuwartenta y uno
• nobenta y uno
• onse
• otsenta y uno
• sesenta y uno
• setenta y uno
• singkuwenta y uno
• treynta y uno
• unibersal
• unibersalidad
• unibersalismo
• unibersitarya
• uniberso
• unidad
• uniko
• uniporme
• unipormidad
• unitaryanismo
• unitaryo
• unyon
• unyonista

See also

• primero
• una

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔuˈno/ [ʔʊˈn̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: u‧no

Noun

unó (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜈᜓ)

1. act of stammering, especially from embarrassment (usually reduplicated)

   Synonyms: utal, pagkautal, pag-uno-uno

Derived terms

• pag-uno-uno
• umuno-uno
• uno-uno

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus (“one”), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one, single”).

Numeral

uno

1. one

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *enoi.

Noun

uno (genitive uno, partitive unno)

1. maternal uncle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈũ.nɨ/

Noun

uno

1. water

   Uno takapai.

   It is raining. (Lit., water is falling.)

   Wasityaha nukula. Takaha unogama.

   [I] lost my gun. [It] fell into [the] water.

References

• C. Ball, "Negation in Wauja discourse" (In Negation in Arawak Languages, edited by Lev Michael, Tania Granadillo, Boston: Brill, 2014, p. 160)
• A. C. Mori, Waurá e Mehináku: um breve estudo comparativo - GEL (2012)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞nɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːnɔ/, /ˈɪnɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞nɔ

Etymology 1

un +‎ -o

Verb

uno (first-person singular present unaf)

1. to join, unite, affiliate, amalgamate

   Synonym: undeboli

Conjugation

Conjugation of uno (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	unaf	uni	una	unwn	unwch	unant	unir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	unwn	unit	unai	unem	unech	unent	unid
preterite	unais	unaist	unodd	unasom	unasoch	unasant	unwyd
pluperfect	unaswn	unasit	unasai	unasem	unasech	unasent	unasid, unesid
present subjunctive	unwyf	unych	uno	unom	unoch	unont	uner
imperative	—	una	uned	unwn	unwch	unent	uner
verbal noun	uno
verbal adjectives	unedig unadwy

Conjugation of uno (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	una i, unaf i	uni di	unith o/e/hi, uniff e/hi	unwn ni	unwch chi	unan nhw
conditional	unwn i, unswn i	unet ti, unset ti	unai fo/fe/hi, unsai fo/fe/hi	unen ni, unsen ni	unech chi, unsech chi	unen nhw, unsen nhw
preterite	unais i, unes i	unaist ti, unest ti	unodd o/e/hi	unon ni	unoch chi	unon nhw
imperative	—	una	—	—	unwch	—

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

• cyfuno (“to unite”)
• uniad (“union”)

Etymology 2

From an earlier *iuno, the root which is also found in eidduno (“to wish, desire”), as well as names like Old Welsh Iunabui and Old Breton Iucar, Iuntiern. The root is perhaps from the same origin as Etymology 1, with a semantic shift "to join (desires)" > "to wish".

Verb

uno (first-person singular present unaf)

1. (archaic) to wish, will, desire, crave

   Synonyms: dymuno, awchu, chwennych, ewyllysio

Derived terms

• adduno (“to vow”)
• dymuno (“to wish, desire”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uno

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
uno	unchanged	unchanged	huno

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “uno”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Miraya Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu.

Pronoun

uno

1. (interrogative) what