Noun: meniño
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | meniño |
| Singular f | meniña |
| Plural m | meniños |
| Plural f | meniñas |
Sample Sentences
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È dor mui doente / Botar á este mundo / Hum miniño inteiro. (It is an aching pain / To throw to this world / A whole baby.) [1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:]
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E levábanlle tamén os meniños para que os tocase. Pero os discípulos rifábanlles. (People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it.) [Luke 18:15-17]
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s
Nouns inflected like meniño
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of uncertain origin. Cognate with Portuguese menino. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
meninho', Old Portuguese Nouns '
meninho', Portuguese Nouns '
menino'.
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