ninho

Galician

Noun

ninho m (plural ninhos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of niño

Further reading

  • “ninho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *nio, *nĩo (“nest”), from Latin nīdus (“nest”), from Proto-Italic *nizdos (“nest”), from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”).

Compare Galician niño, Spanish nido, Catalan niu, French nid and Italian nido.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnĩ.ɲu/ [ˈnĩ.j̃u]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈni.ɲo/

  • Rhymes: -iɲu, (Brazil) -ĩɲu
  • Hyphenation: ni‧nho

Noun

ninho m (plural ninhos)

  1. nest (bird-built structure)
  2. (by extension) nest (place used by any animal for depositing eggs and hatching young)
    Synonyms: covil, toca
  3. (figurative, endearing) home
    Synonyms: abrigo, castelo, lar
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) ellipsis of leite ninho (“powdered milk”)
    • 2016 November 6, Yuri Ramires, quoting Emilaine Magnanti, “Bióloga "se encontra" na confeitaria e cria 30 tipos de brigadeiro”, in MidiaNews‎[1], Cuiabá, archived from the original on 7 November 2016:
      “Os que mais saem são o brigadeiro tradicional, de ninho com nutella, de churros e beijinho”, lembrou.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: ninhu

Further reading

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