Noun: menino
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | menino |
| Singular f | menina |
| Plural m | meninos |
| Plural f | meninas |
Sample Sentences
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Aquele menino só me aporrinha. (That boy always gets on my nerves.)
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Os meninos têm fome. (The children are hungry.)
Nouns inflected like menino
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninho (the palatal nasal survives in the Galician cognate meniño), of uncertain origin:
2. * From Latin minimus.
3. * From a Gallo-Romance language (cf. Catalan minyó (“boy”), French mignon (“cute”)).
4. * 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.
5. * From Paleo-Hispanic, 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-). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
meninho', Old Portuguese Nouns '
meninho', Latin Nouns '
minimus', Catalan Nouns '
minyó', French Nouns '
mignon', Old Portuguese Nouns '
neno'.
Verbs referencing "menino"
Spanish Nouns
menino, Galician Nouns
meniño, Catalan Nouns
minyó.
Translations