See also: meniño

ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

menino

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

AnagramsEdit

PortugueseEdit

 
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Um menino [1]
 
Meninos [2]

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Rhymes: -inu
  • Hyphenation: me‧ni‧no

NounEdit

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

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

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DescendantsEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

menino m (plural meninos)

  1. menin

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