bambino
See also: Bambino
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /bæmˈbinoʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editbambino (plural bambinos or bambini)
- A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. [from 18th c.]
- 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
- These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.
References
edit- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Bambino”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 645, column 1.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bambino”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic bambo for the first stammerings of children, plus -ino (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbambino m (plural bambini, feminine bambina, diminutive bambinétto (“smallish child”) or bambinùccio (“baby”), augmentative bambinóne (“large child; child-like person”), pejorative bambinàccio, endearing bambinèllo)
- child, baby, toddler, tot (male or of unspecified gender)
- (baby) boy, young boy
- (zoology) breed of short hairless cats
Derived terms
edit- bambino soldato
- bimbo (“baby”)
Related terms
edit- bambola (“doll”)
Descendants
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