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menino

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See also: meniño

Italian

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Verb

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menino

  1. inflection of menare:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Anagrams

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Um menino [1]
Meninos [2]

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninho (the palatal nasal survives in the Galician cognate meniño), of uncertain origin:

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -inu, (Brazil) -ĩnu
  • Hyphenation: me‧ni‧no

Noun

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menino m (plural meninos, feminine menina, feminine plural meninas)

  1. boy (a young male)
  2. child (a young person)
  3. child (offspring)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: mininu
  • Kabuverdianu: meninu
  • Spanish: menino, menina

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266

Spanish

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Noun

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menino m (plural meninos)

  1. menin

Further reading

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