Adjective: mesquiño
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | mesquiño |
| Singular f. | mesquiña |
| Plural m. | mesquiños |
| Plural f. | mesquiñas |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like mesquiño
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mesquinno (“poor”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn). Compare Portuguese mesquinho and Spanish mezquino, Sicilian mischinu. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
mesquinho', Spanish Adjectives '
mezquino'.
Verbs referencing "mesquiño"
Portuguese Adjectives
mesquinho.
Translations