mino

Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnəʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnoʊ/, /ˈmiːnəʊ/
• Homophone: minnow

mino (plural mino)

1. (historical) A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.

Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnoʊ/

mino (plural minos)

1. Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
   • 1877, C. W. Gedney, Foreign cage birds, volume 2, page 195:

     He is a native of East India and its adjacent islands, but the high estimation in which the Mino is held amongst the natives, and the ready sale which promising specimens realise (the equivalent of £2 being often paid in India) render it difficult to obtain a really good bird in England except at an extravagant price.

• mino bird

• Moni, omni, omni-

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmi.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmi.no]

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmino/ [ˈmi.n̪o]
• Hyphenation: mi‧no

mino

1. (folklore) a magic spell cast, by a supernatural being, to confuse, disorient or make people lose their way

mino

1. (folklore) to disorient; to become lost

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmino/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: mi‧no

mino (accusative singular minon, plural minoj, accusative plural minojn)

1. mine (place where ores or minerals are mined)

   Synonym: minejo

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Cognate with Latin minor.

mino (feminine mino)

1. smaller
2. younger

mino m (plural minos)

1. alternative spelling of minot (“kid”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.no/

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minare

• -nimo, nimo, nomi

mino

1. nonstandard spelling of mina

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.no]

Collateral form of minor (“threaten, goad”). Attested in sense 1 from the second century CE in Apuleius. Sense 2 is found in numerous later works.^[1]

minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation

1. to drive or goad (animals)
2. to drive or lead (people) (Late Latin)

• amoenus

From mina f (“ore, mine”) +‎ -ō (denominative verb suffix), from Gaulish *mēnā (“ore, mine”).

minō (present infinitive mināre, perfect active mināvī, supine minātum); first conjugation (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. to mine
2. to sap, undermine

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “minare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “minare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 682

• “mino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mino", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -inɔ
• Syllabification: mi‧no

mino f

1. vocative singular of mina

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmino/ [ˈmi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: mi‧no

Borrowed from Lunfardo [Term?].

mino m (plural minos, feminine mina, feminine plural minas)

1. (Rioplatense) man, especially an attractive one
2. (Chile) boy

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mino

1. first-person singular present indicative of minar

• “mino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Bantu *màjínò.

mino class 6

1. plural of jino