mesquiño

Galician

Alternative forms
  • miscuriño, misquiño

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesquinno (“poor”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn). Compare Portuguese mesquinho and Spanish mezquino.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [mesˈkiɲʊ]

Noun

mesquiño m (plural mesquiños)

  1. (archaic) poor
    Synonym: pobre

Adjective

mesquiño (feminine mesquiña, masculine plural mesquiños, feminine plural mesquiñas)

  1. miserable
    Synonyms: miserable, ruín
  2. miserly; greedy
    Synonyms: avaro, avarento

Derived terms

References
  • “mesquiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mesq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “mesquiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mesquiño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mesquiño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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