menino

See also: meniño

Italian

Verb

menino

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

Anagrams

nomine

Portuguese

Um menino [1]

Meninos [2]

Alternative forms

minino, meninho (archaic)

Etymology

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

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈnĩ.nu/, /miˈnĩ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈni.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈni.nu/

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

Noun

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

boy (a young male)
child (a young person)
child (offspring)

Synonyms

garoto, rapaz, moço, miúdo (Portugal), guri (chiefly dialectal in South Brazil), piá (dialectal in Paraná, Brazil), catraio (colloquial)

Derived terms

meninada

Related terms

Descendants

Guinea-Bissau Creole: mininu
Kabuverdianu: meninu
→ Spanish: menino, menina
- → French: menin

References

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

Spanish

Noun

menino m (plural meninos)

menin

Further reading

“menino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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