menino
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See also: meniño
Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]menino
- inflection of menare:
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninho (the palatal nasal survives in the Galician cognate meniño), of uncertain origin:
- From Latin minimus.
- From a Gallo-Romance language (cf. Catalan minyó (“boy”), French mignon (“cute”)).
- From meu ninno, with ninno being a borrowing from Old Spanish niño. The alveolar nasal may have arisen due to conflation with Old Galician-Portuguese neno, from Vulgar Latin *ninnus.
- From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) (compare Middle Irish menn (“kid”), Middle Breton menn (“young goat”), Middle Welsh myn (“kid”), from Proto-Celtic *menno-).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]menino m (plural meninos, feminine menina, feminine plural meninas)
Synonyms
[edit]- garoto, rapaz, moço, miúdo (Portugal), guri (chiefly dialectal in South Brazil), piá (dialectal in Paraná, Brazil), catraio (colloquial)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]menino m (plural meninos)
Further reading
[edit]- “menino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/inu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/inu/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩnu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ĩnu/3 syllables
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