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Appendix:Variations of "no"
English
numero sign
Alternative forms
en № Nº Nº.
en No no. no
Etymology
Borrowing of the en la - scribal abbreviation la No. from (la in) la numero numerō in number, to the number of. Cognate with fr no no.
Pronunciation
en en-us-number.ogg US number
Adverb
-
en archaic en in number,to the number of.
en 1661 Robert Lovell A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals 129 They goe two months, & then bring forth a blind off-spring like bitches, no. eight or nine.
en 1693 Steven Blankaart A Physical Dictionary 2nd 146 Take of Jujubes No vi. that is, Six in number.
en 1994 Dorland's Medical Dictionary 28th 1141 No., abbreviation of L. la numero, ‘to the number of’.
Noun
Nos.
en number.
1753, A Supplement to Mr Chambers's Cyclopaedia, s.v. "Otis":
See Tab. of Birds, No 28.
1840 February 4, Charles Dickens, letter:
I am curious to see how the idea of the first No. of my projected work, strikes you.
en 1974 Michael Gilbert Flash Point 14 It's No. 276 Coalporter Street.
en Kristen Rogers Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/food-dye-bans-states-wellness 2025-03-29 Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens. https://web.archive.org/web/20261011090009/https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/food-dye-bans-states-wellness 11 October 2026
en The king made a gift of No. 10 to his old Eton roommate.
Usage notes
This is the customary abbreviation for en number used in case citations.
Synonyms
en #
mul №
Translations
abbreviation of "number"
Afrikaans: af nr. (nommer)
Asturian: ast nᵘ m
Catalan: ca núm. m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 號 hào
Czech: cs č.
Danish: da nr.
Dutch: nl nr, nl nº
Finnish: fi nro
French: fr nº
German: de Nr.
Greek: el αρ.
Hebrew: he מס׳ m mis.
Hindi: hi नं., hi नं॰
Hungarian: hu sz.
Interlingua: ia nº
Italian: it nº, it n., it n.ro, N
Japanese: ja No. nanbā, ja № nanbā
Latvian: lv nr.
Lithuanian: lt nr.
Malay: ms no., ms bil.
Norwegian: no nr, no nº
Polish: nr (abbr. of numer)
Portuguese: pt nº
Russian: ru № - (abbr. of ru но́мер m)
Scottish Gaelic: gd àir.
Slovak: sk č.
Slovene: sl št.
Sotho: st no. (nomora)
Spanish: es n.º m, es núm. m
Swedish: sv nr
Tagalog: tl blg., tl no.
Yiddish: yi נו׳ m
References
No. adv.³ and n.² 127436 2003
The Bluebook, 19th ed. (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, pp. 430-431.
Anagrams
en no -on ON ON. on on-
en case citation abbreviations