menino

menino

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

• nomine

• minino (obsolete, eye dialect)
• meninho (archaic)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninno, menỹo (the expected 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].

Cognate with Galician meniño.

• Rhymes: -inu

• Hyphenation: me‧ni‧no

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

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

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

• meninada

• menina
• menininho
• meninão

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

menino m (plural meninos)

1. menin

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