Noun: mesquiño
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | mesquiño |
| Plural m | mesquiños |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mesquiño
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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: Old Portuguese Nouns '
mesquinno', Portuguese Nouns '
mesquinho'.
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